Social Christianity in Scotland and Beyond, 1800-2000

Andrew Kloes is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a historian in Washington, D.C. He is the author of The German Awakening: Protestant Renewal after the Enlightenment, 1815-1848 (Oxford, 2019) and has contributed articles to the Bavinck Review, Harvard Theological Review, Studies in Church History and Wesley and Methodist Studies. Laura M. Mair is the Mary R. S. Creese Lecturer in Modern Scottish History at the University of Aberdeen and an Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh’s School of Divinity. Her seminal book, Religion and Relationships in Ragged Schools: An Intimate History of Educating the Poor (Routledge, 2019) was the first book-length study of the ragged school movement. She has authored a number of articles in journals including Church History, Family & Community, Scottish Church History and the Journal of Victorian Culture.

• Foreword - David FergussonAbout the AuthorsIntroduction, by Andrew Kloes and Laura M. MairChapter 1: The Social Concerns of Brunswick Wesleyan Chapel, Leeds, in the Victorian Era - David Bebbington Chapter 2: Navigating Cultural Pluralism: Christian Responses to Radical Unbelief in Early Nineteenth-Century Scotland - Felicity Loughlin Chapter 3: Wrestling with Dilemmas: Presbyterian Evangelism and Slavery in the American Ante-Bellum South - Iain Whyte Chapter 4: Awakened Protestants’ calls for ‘Christian socialism’ and ‘Christian communism’ in Germany, 1844-1850 - Andrew KloesChapter 5: James Baird and the Baird Trust: Industrial Philanthropy and Evangelical Activism in Victorian Scotland - Andrew Michael JonesChapter 6: In Person, Print, and Prayer: The Shared Mission of Scottish and English Ragged Schools in the Nineteenth Century - Laura M. Mair Chapter 7: Mary Magdalene and the ‘Fallen’ Sisters: the Social Gospel of the Magdalene Asylums in Scotland - Jowita A. Thor Chapter 8: ‘Standing in the Gap’: D. L. Moody & Evangelical Social Christianity in Chicago and Scotland, 1860-1900 - Thomas Breimaier Chapter 9: ‘The Saving of the Body’: Sport at Church in England since 1850 - Hugh McLeodChapter 10: Henry Scott Holland and Social Christianity in the English fin de siècle - Frances KnightChapter 11: ‘Indignation would arise within you’: Herman Bavinck on Racial Injustice in Europe and North America - James EglintonChapter 12: ‘Woodbine Willie’ and the Quest for a Social Christianity after the First World War - Timothy LarsenChapter 13: Billy Graham, the All Scotland Crusade of 1955 and the Social Gospel - Kenneth JeffreyChapter 14: Social Christianity on the Mission Field: Shifting Patterns in British and American Protestant Globalism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Brian Stanley Bibliography of Stewart J. Brown

This volume pays fitting tribute to a leading historian of social Christianity by making a major new contribution to the literature in fascinating studies that set the Scottish experience in a rich comparative international perspective.