HIST 351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Christian Right, Prison Reform, Social Gospel
8 May 2017
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People who believed that the civil rights acts solved the problem and nothing else needed to be done. The religious right: people at the time thought it was a revolution of evangelical protestantism, puritanism. Based on the idea that god was so powerful that there was nothing human beings can do to impress god. God already knew who was going to reach salvation and who wasn"t. Protestantism remained the dominant force in american religion until the expansion of the 19th century when other sects came to light. Believed you could earn your way into heaven. Had progressive views and were the force behind many progressive reforms. Advocated temperance, women"s rights, education, mental illness, poverty, prison reform. Evangelical organizations got involved in a wide range of reforms. Driven by people who were, in the context of american society, the most progressive, reform-minded groups in the united states.
