Spiritual Socialists
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Author | : Vaneesa Cook |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2019-10-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812251652 |
Refuting the common perception that the American left has a religion problem, Vaneesa Cook highlights an important but overlooked intellectual and political tradition that she calls "spiritual socialism." Spiritual socialists emphasized the social side of socialism and believed the most basic expression of religious values—caring for the sick, tired, hungry, and exploited members of one's community—created a firm footing for society. Their unorthodox perspective on the spiritual and cultural meaning of socialist principles helped make leftist thought more palatable to Americans, who associated socialism with Soviet atheism and autocracy. In this way, spiritual socialism continually put pressure on liberals, conservatives, and Marxists to address the essential connection between morality and social justice. Cook tells her story through an eclectic group of activists whose lives and works span the twentieth century. Sherwood Eddy, A. J. Muste, Myles Horton, Dorothy Day, Henry Wallace, Pauli Murray, Staughton Lynd, and Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke and wrote publicly about the connection between religious values and socialism. Equality, cooperation, and peace, they argued, would not develop overnight, and a more humane society would never emerge through top-down legislation. Instead, they believed that the process of their vision of the world had to happen in homes, villages, and cities, from the bottom up. By insisting that people start treating each other better in everyday life, spiritual socialists transformed radical activism from projects of political policy-making to grass-roots organizing. For Cook, contemporary public figures such as Senator Bernie Sanders, Pope Francis, Reverend William Barber, and Cornel West are part of a long-standing tradition that exemplifies how non-Communist socialism has gained traction in American politics.
Author | : Edward R. Norman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2002-10-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521530514 |
Victorian Christian Socialism began as a protest against industrial evils by a group of Anglicans in 1848 - the year of the great Chartist demonstration. In F. D. Maurice it had a prophet and a thinker whose ideas inspired subsequent Christians, so that the ideals of the original Christian Socialists began to spread to other Churches. The result was a series of critiques of the England of their day, rather than a systematic 'movement', and is best analysed, as it is in this book, through an examination of the leading figures, who in addition to Maurice include Charles Kingsley, Thomas Hughes and John Ruskin. The present study is not a collection of biographical studies, however, but a history of Christian Socialism constructed around the most influential of its advocates. They are shown to have been ethical and educational reformers rather than politicians, but in their ability to stand outside the common assumptions and prejudices of their day they achieved social criticism of lasting value.
Author | : Bernard Vaughan |
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Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Socialism |
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Author | : John Carter |
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Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Author | : William H. Muldoon |
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Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Christian socialism |
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Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1888 |
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Author | : Arthur V. Woodworth |
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Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Christian socialism |
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Author | : John Spargo |
Publisher | : New York, B. W. Huebsch |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Christian socialism |
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Author | : George Hodges |
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Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Christian socialism |
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Author | : Nicholas Paine Gilman |
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Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Christian socialism |
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