Steel City Gospel

Demonstrating the power religious language, ideas, and institutions had in shaping progressive reform in Pittsburgh, this cross-disciplinary study addresses significant debates in the fields of Progressive-Era political history and American religious history, while telling the story of an industrial city in a crucial era of change. Introduction Chapter 1: Pittsburgh Protestant Churches and Early Progressive Reform in Pittsburgh Chapter 2: Pittsburgh's Activist Laity: Agents of Moral Discourse Chapter 3: Reformers and the Search for Moral Government Chapter 4: Graft, Vice, and the Reform of Pittsburgh's Government Chapter 5: Back to the Churches: The Christian Social Service Union and the Reclamation of Moral Discourse Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index