George D. Herron and the Kingdom Movement

1950 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert T. Handy
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Middle Years ◽  
Social Christianity ◽  
Protestant Churches ◽  
History Of

The story of the Kingdom movement of the 1890's is one of the most important chapters in the history of American social Christianity. In the middle years of the 1890's the Christian social movement really began to exert significant influence upon the American Protestant churches and to modify the character of certain denominations. The Kingdom movement played an important role in the events of these crucial years.

Saving the Nation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas H. Reilly
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Social Revolution ◽  
Social Christianity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Urban Elite ◽  
Justice And Mercy

This book is a history of the Chinese Protestant elite and their contribution to building a new China in the years from 1922 to 1952. While a small percentage of China’s overall population, China’s Protestants constituted a large and influential segment of the urban elite. They exercised that influence through their churches, hospitals, and schools, especially the universities, and also through institutions such as the YMCA and the YWCA, whose membership was drawn from the modern sectors of urban life. These Protestant elites believed that they could best contribute to the building of a new China through their message of social Christianity, believing that Christianity could help make Chinese society strong, modern, and prosperous, but also characterized by justice and mercy. More than preaching a message, the Protestant elite also played a critical social role, through their institutions, broadening the appeal and impact of social movements, and imparting to them a greater sense of legitimacy. This history begins with the elite’s participation in social reform campaigns in the early twentieth century, continues with their efforts in resisting imperialism, and ends with their support for the Communist-led social revolution.

Social movement studies in post-3.11 Japan: A sociological analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 026858092110053
Author(s):  
Naoto Higuchi
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Japanese Society ◽  
Radical Right ◽  
Common Phenomenon ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Approaches To Studying ◽  
Social Protests ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mass Protest

Between the decline of mass protests in the 1970s and the Great East Japan Earthquake and Fukushima nuclear meltdown in the 2010s, which resulted in the resurgence of mass demonstrations, social movements were widely regarded as uncommon in Japan. In this essay, the author reviews Japan’s social movement studies in the last decade, focusing on the influence of the lack of mass protest since the 1970s on scholarly interests. The essay examines the following four topics: (1) slow responses to the resurgence of mass demonstrations in post-3.11 Japan, (2) quick responses to the rise of the radical right movement, (3) the emergence of cynical approaches to studying social movements, and (4) the redemption of the history of Japan’s postwar social movements. Despite some twists and turns, we can see how social protests are a perpetual element of Japanese society that sociologists study as a common phenomenon.

The Law of Conservation of Matter and Energy in the History of Economic Thought

1990 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-102
Author(s):  
William S. Kern
Keyword(s):  
Significant Influence ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
History Of Economic Thought ◽  
Newtonian Mechanics ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Law ◽  
Economic Thinking

The development of economic thinking has seldom taken place entirely independently of developments in other disciplines. There is a long history of interdisciplinary influences among economics, mathematics, physics, biology, and philosophy. Among the most influential of these other disciplines has been physics. Numerous authors have attributed significant influence upon economics to Newtonian mechanics (Taylor 1960, Georgescu-Roegen 1971). The strength of that influence is perhaps best illustrated by William Stanley Jevons's proclamation of his attempt to reconstruct economics as “the mechanics of utility and self interest.“ Frank Knight, having observed what Jevons and others had wrought, concluded that mechanics had become the “sister science” of economics (Knight 1976, p. 85).

scholarly journals Toward a General Theory and Global History of Workers’ Education

2016 ◽  
Vol 90 ◽  
pp. 5-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Merrill ◽  
Susan J. Schurman
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Labor Movement ◽  
Democratic Education ◽  
Labor Movements ◽  
Global History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Contested Terrain ◽  
New Generation

AbstractWorkers’ education, understood to mean the education of workers by workers for purposes they themselves determine, has always been highly contested terrain, just like work itself. If there is to be an adequate global history of workers’ education, it will need to be guided by a suitable general theory. Hegel most expansively and Durkheim most persuasively argued that societies are cognitive and moral projects, of which education is constitutive: knowing and social being are inextricably bound up with one another. In the global democratic revolutions of the last 250 years, the labor movement distinguished itself as simultaneously a social movement, an education in democracy, and a struggle for a democratic education. The history of workers’ education is a history of workers striving to remake their communities into democracies and themselves into democrats. This brief essay introduces a collection of essays representative of a new generation of scholarship on the history of workers’ education, which we hope will help both traditional and emerging labor movements understand their past and think more clearly about their future.

scholarly journals On Some Fiscal Decisions of Caligula and Vespasian

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 53-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Pikulska-Radomska
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
The State ◽  
History Of ◽  
Centralized System ◽  
State Revenues

The history of the Roman Empire is a history of continuously looking for new sources of state revenues. Numerous public loads, spontaneously created during the early Empire, without any deeper analysis, created a disordered mess of particular and curious taxes rather than a centralized system as an instrument of controlling economic processes. The tax decisions of the emperors mentioned in the title, in spite of having a significant influence on the state treasury, were, in fact, of the same disordered nature.

scholarly journals Pr. Carl Sonnenschein – apostle of charity

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-125
Author(s):  
Mirosław Górecki
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Pastoral Ministry ◽  
Social Activist ◽  
Social Reformer ◽  
Catholic Priest ◽  
History Of ◽  
Saint Francis

This text is a draft of Carl Sonnenschein (1876–1929) biography. He was a German Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher, social reformer, charismatic social activist, founder of the Catholic social movement in Germany, the creator of new forms of metropolitan pastoral ministry, the apostle of Berlin, after his death he was called Saint Francis of Berlin. In Poland, his figure is almost unknown. The aim of this article is to bring closer his profile, the climate accompanying his activities and to contribute to the understanding of the aura of fascination and uniqueness, which surrounds not so much his work as a person, so important in the history of the German and universal Catholic Church and also for followers of other religions.

Epilogue

2020 ◽  
pp. 180-182
Author(s):  
Joe William Trotter
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Urban League ◽  
National Organization ◽  
Black And White ◽  
History Of

The history of the Urban League of Pittsburgh is more than the tale of one city. It underscores the growth of a vibrant social movement. As past NUL president John Jacobs put it, the ULP mirrors the conditions that brought the national organization into existence, including “the kinds of people—black and white—who created it and struggled to keep it alive.”...

Gas Turbine Propulsion Machinery for the MSTS Roll-On/Roll-Off Ship

1967 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald L. Caldera ◽  
Gerald C. Swensson ◽  
Charles E. Hoch
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Service Performance ◽  
Machinery Plant ◽  
Engineering Problems ◽  
History Of

The history of the roll-on/roll-off type of cargo ship is reviewed to illustrate the development of the specific ship requirements for the Adm. Wm. M. Callaghan. The ship is unique in that it is the first large cargo ship to be built which has been initially designed to incorporate all advantages of gas turbine propulsion. The basic engineering problems and selections involved in the design of the machinery plant are briefly described. The service performance of this ship will have a significant influence on future applications of gas turbine machinery for commercial ships.

Evangelicals and Emergent Moral Protest

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Gahr ◽  
Michael Young
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
New Left ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
History Of ◽  
Evangelical Protestants ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
New Social Movement

This article provides a comparative analysis of two religiously inspired protests that fed broader social movements: the "rebellion" of immediate abolitionists at Lane Seminary in Cincinnati in 1834 and the new-left "breakthrough" at the Christian Faith-and-Life Community in Austin in 1960. The two cases are examples of moral protests breaking out of Protestant institutions and shaping social movements. From the comparison, we draw general lessons about the meso- and micro-level processes of activist conversions. We show how processes of "rationalization" and "subjectivation" combined in the emergence of new contentious moral orders. We apply these lessons to help explain the creative interactions of evangelical Protestants in the history of American moral protest. Our approach accords with pragmatist and new social movement theories of emergent moral orders.

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