St. Mark's and the social gospel : Methodist women and civil rights in New Orleans, 1895-1965 / Ellen Blue.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blue, Ellen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

St. Mark's United Methodist Church (New Orleans, La.)--History.

St. Mark's United Methodist Church (New Orleans, La.).

St. Mark's Community Center.

Women in church work--Louisiana--New Orleans--History.

Women in church work.

Women in church work--Methodist Church--History.

St. Mark's Community Center--History.

Civil rights--Religious aspects--Methodist Church--History.

Civil rights.

Social gospel--Louisiana--New Orleans--History.

Social gospel.

History.

Civil rights--Religious aspects--Methodist Church.

Women in church work--Methodist Church.

New Orleans (La.)--Church history.

New Orleans (La.).

Louisiana--New Orleans.

Physical Description:

xii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2011]

Summary:

Blue (history of Christianity and United Methodist studies, Phillips Theological Seminary, Tulsa, Oklahoma) tells a story of St. Mark's Community Center and the St. Mark's congregation that is a story about women--white, southern women who were products of their time, she says, but who also challenged the prevailing culture in both subtle and dramatic ways, and so brought about a change in New Orleans. The stages of the tale are Methodist women doing settlement work 1895-World War I; work for gender and racial equality 1920s-1960; crises in church, center, and city 1960-65; and post-1965. The study began as her PhD dissertation at Tulane University. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Part I Methodist Women Doing Settlement Work: 1895-WorldWar I

Chapter 1 The Mary Werlein Mission, 1895-1908 25

Chapter 2 St Mark's Hall, 1909-1917 57

Chapter 3 St Mark's Community Center in the Post-World War I Era 83

Part II Work for Gender and Racial Equality: 1920s-1960

Chapter 4 "A Restlessness of Women" 107

Chapter 5 Addressing Racial Injustice before and after Brown 135

Part III Crises in Church, Center, and City: 1960-1965

Chapter 6 St Marks in Crisis, 1960-1965 159

Chapter 7 Assessing St. Mark's in the Sixties 183

Part IV Post-1965 and Conclusion

Chapter 8 Since 1965 209

Chapter 9 Conclusion 223.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781572338210

1572338210

OCLC:

727610593