Washington Gladden's Church

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<p><span>This is the first significant book-length biography in over 50 years of Washington Gladden, a minister, journalist, and reformer whose message of religious liberalism came to define modern Protestantism in the United States. Although largely forgotten today, Gladden was one of the most well-known pastors of his time and a leader of the social gospel and progressive movement. Mislin chronicles Gladdens early years bristling against the culture of a pious small town in upstate New York, his personal and family struggles during the Civil War, and his eventual professional success that came by providing a religious message for a society struggling with skepticism about organized religion, massive economic inequality, rampant corporate malfeasance, and widespread racial and religious bigotry.</span><br><br></p><p><br><br></p><p><span>Through this book, Gladdens life emerges as both a model for the fusion of progressive political, social, and religious commitments, as well as a cautionary tale of the potential perils for those who critique society from inside elite institutions.</span></p>

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<span>David Mislin, Assistant Professor in the Intellectual Heritage Program at Temple University, is the author of</span><span>Saving Faith: Making Religious Pluralism an American Value at the Dawn of the Secular Age</span><span> (Cornell, 2015) and a contributor to</span><span>The Lively Experiment: Religious Toleration in America from Roger Williams to the Present</span><span> (R&amp;L 2015).</span>

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