TY - BOOK ID - 77915841 TI - St. Mark's and the social gospel : Methodist women and civil rights in New Orleans, 1895-1965 PY - 2011 SN - 1280125020 9786613528889 1572338245 9781572338241 9781280125027 9781572338210 1572338210 6613528889 PB - Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, DB - UniCat KW - Social gospel KW - Civil rights KW - Women in church work KW - Gospel, Social KW - Christian sociology KW - Basic rights KW - Civil liberties KW - Constitutional rights KW - Fundamental rights KW - Rights, Civil KW - Constitutional law KW - Human rights KW - Political persecution KW - Church work KW - History. KW - Religious aspects KW - Methodist Church KW - Law and legislation KW - St. Mark's Community Center KW - St. Mark's United Methodist Church (New Orleans, La.) KW - Saint Mark's United Methodist Church (New Orleans, La.) KW - Saint Mark's Community Center KW - New Orleans (La.) KW - Big Easy (La.) KW - Crescent City (La.) KW - La Nouvelle-Orléans (La.) KW - NOLA (La.) KW - Nawlins (La.) KW - Neu Orleans (La.) KW - Nieuw Orleans (La.) KW - Nouvelle-Orléans (La.) KW - Neuva Orleans (La.) KW - Nueva Orleans (La.) KW - Nuova Orleans (La.) KW - City of New Orleans (La.) KW - Cité d'Orléans (La.) KW - Orleans Parish (La.) KW - Church history. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77915841 AB - 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 civil righ ER -