TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blue,Ellen
TI  - St. Mark's and the Social Gospel: Methodist Women and Civil Rights in New Orleans, 1895-1965
SN  - 9781572338241
AV  - BX8481.N46B68 2011 
U1  - 261.7088/2870976335 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Knoxville
PB  - University of Tennessee Press
KW  - St. Mark's United Methodist Church (New Orleans, La.)
KW  - History
KW  - St. Mark's Community Center
KW  - fast
KW  - Women in church work
KW  - Louisiana
KW  - New Orleans
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Methodist Church
KW  - Social gospel
KW  - Droits de l'homme
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - Église méthodiste
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Évangile social
KW  - Louisiane
KW  - La Nouvelle-Orléans
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christian Life
KW  - Social Issues
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Christianity
KW  - General
KW  - New Orleans (La.)
KW  - Church history
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: Methodist Women Doing Settlement Work: 1895-World War I; Chapter 1: The Mary Werlein Mission, 1895-1908; Chapter 2: St. Mark's Hall, 1909-1917; Chapter 3: St. Mark's Community Center in the Post-World War I Era; Part II: Work for Gender and Racial Equality: 1920s-1960; Chapter 4: "A Restlessness of Women"; Chapter 5: Addressing Racial Injustice before and after Brown; Part III: Crises in Church, Center, and City: 1960-1965; Chapter 6: St. Mark's in Crisis, 1960-1965; Chapter 7: Assessing St. Mark's in the Sixties; Part IV: Post-1965 and Conclusion Chapter 8: Since 1965; Chapter 9: Conclusion; Appendix A: Sources for Research on MECS Women's Work; Appendix B: A Charter of Racial Policies; Notes; Index
N2  - The impact of St. Mark's Community Center and United Methodist Church on the city of New Orleans is immense. Their stories are dramatic reflections of the times. But these stories are more than mere reflections because St. Mark's changed the picture, leading the way into different understandings of what urban diversity could and should mean. This book looks at the contributions of St. Mark's, in particular the important role played by women (especially deaconesses) as the church confronted social issues through the rise of the social gospel movement and into the modern
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