What price the poor? : William Booth, Karl Marx, and the London residuum
In this fascinating book, Ann Woodall investigates and compares the work and thought of William Booth and Karl Marx. What Price the Poor? raises important questions about the relationship between theological discourse and the sociological imagination and it firmly places the development of theoretical and practical social analysis and application within the context of social history. F
Print Book, English, 2017
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Routledge, London ; New York, 2017
History
xii, 233 Seiten
9781138266612, 9780754642039, 1138266612, 0754642038
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The pawnbroker's apprentice
Industrialisation and urbanisation
Poverty
Poverty in Nottingham
Attitudes to poverty
Malthus
Jeremy Bentham
Influential writers about poverty
Dickens
Carlyle
The chartists
John Wesley
Chartism and Methodism in Nottingham
The old woman of Nottingham
The Reverend William
The size of the London Residuum
Public opinion of poverty
Changes in religious belief
Natural science
Biblical criticism
Moral feeling
Evangelicalism
Development of Booth's theology
Finney and Caughey
Calvinism
Women's ministry
Holiness
The east end
Booth's east end base
"What price the poor?
Booth's early co-workers
An organisation of the residuum
Community of poverty
The revolutionary philosopher
Marx's early concept of poverty
Paris
London
Learning from London
The philosopher as a prophet?
Marx and religion
Societal redemption and the individual
. The chronology of redemption
The making of a general
Permanent poverty in the east end
Public knowledge of poverty
Where was religion?
Diffusive Christianity and secularism
Christian socialists
The Churches and the working classes
The growth of the Salvation Army
Failure in the east end?
The springboard for darkest England
Work with prostitutes
At the prison gate
The 'maiden tribute' case
The darkest England scheme
The theology behind 'darkest England'
Saved from poverty or from sin?
The making of a general's mind
Mallock
Flint
Salvationism and socialism
A man with a mind of his own
The general in command
Organisational size
The charity organisation society
Social Darwinists
Social Imperialism
Darkest England scheme results
Atmosphere of the times
Fifty years on
Centrality and dissemination
Present and future
The darkest England scheme and Marxist terminology
. The Salvation Army and Marx's criticisms of religion
Nature and nurture
Atonement and incarnation
Marx
youth and age
Booth
youth and age
What price the poor?
"First published 2005 by Ashgate Publishing."--Title page verso