Gender and the Social Gospel

Edited by Wendy J. Deichmann Edwards and Carolyn De Swarte Gifford

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS

URBANA AND CONTENTS

Acknowledgments ix Foreword Christopher H. Evans xi Introduction: Restoring Women and Reclaiming Gender in Social Gospel Studies Wendy J. Deichmann Edwards and Carolyn De Swarte Gifford 1

PART i: SETTING THE ISSUES 1. "The Woman's Cause Is Man's"? and the Social Gospel Carolyn De Swarte Gifford 21 2. Women and Social Betterment in the Social Gospel Work of Josiah Strong Wendy J. Deichmann Edwards 35 3. More Than Maternal Feminists and Good Samaritans: Women and the Social Gospel in Canada Eleanor J. Stebner 53

PART 2: PERSPECTIVES ON A SOCIAL GOSPEL FAMILY: THE RAUSCHENBUSCHES 4. Walter Rauschenbusch and "The Woman Movement": A Gender Analysis Janet Forsythe Fishburn 71 5. The Social Dimensions of Foreign Missions: Emma Rauschenbusch Clough and Social Gospel Ideology Paul William Harris 87

PART 3: ORGANIZATION AND PROFESSIONALIZATION OF WOMEN'S SOCIAL GOSPEL WORK 6. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union in the Pacific Northwest: A Different Side of the Social Gospel Dale E. Soden 103 7. Shaping a Civic Profession: Mary Richmond, the Social Gospel, and Social Work Elizabeth N. Agnew 116

PART 4: WOMEN AND SOCIAL GOSPEL THEOLOGY 8. and the Social Gospel Movement: Different Theologies, Common Concerns Robert Trawick 139 9. , Walter Rauschenbusch, and Dorothy Day: A Comparative Study of Settlement Theology R. A. R. Edwards 150 10. The Ecumenical Woman's Missionary Movement: Helen Barrett Montgomery and The Baptist, 1920—30 Kendal P. Mobley 167

PART 5: EXPANDING THE CONVENTIONAL BOUNDARIES OF THE SOCIAL GOSPEL MOVEMENT 11. Gender and the Social Gospel Novel Susan Hill Lindley 185 12. True to Our God: African American Women as Christian Activists in Rochester, New York Ingrid Overacker 202 13. In the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.: The Social Gospel of and Michael Dwayne Blackwell 217

Contributors 231 Index 233