History Department      

History/Religion 345 – RELIGION IN AMERICA – November 4, 2005

A 19TH CENTURY CONVERSATION

Imagine that we had the opportunity to talk to some, or all, of the people below.  How would they define the “tasks of religion” in their day?  What are they for?  What are they against?  What are the “critical issues of the day”?

1. M. Lathbury, “Frances Willard”

 

 

 

 

5. R. C. Ransom, “The Race Problem in a Christian State”

 

 

 

 

9. Josiah Strong, “Our Country” (1885)

2. Cardinal Gibbons, “Knights of Labor”

 

 

 

6. W. Rauschenbusch, “Christianity & the Social Crisis”

 

 

 

 

10. Catholic/ Protestant Debate over the Philippines (1899)

3. Pope Leo XIII, “Rerum Novarum”

 

 

 

7. S. Jackson, “Reaching Alaska’s Natives” (1878)

 

 

 

 

 

11. “Boxer Opposition to Christian Missionaries” (1900)

4. Charles Sheldon, “In His Steps”

 

 

 

8. S. Wells Williams, “The Middle Kingdom” (1883)

 

 

 

6. T. Reed, “The March of the Flag” (1903)

 

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