“Are Ye Able?” The Methodist Youth Department, Racial Justice, and Church Reform in Mid-Twentieth Century America

Between 1930 and 1970, national Methodist youth leaders led a sustained liberal religious education campaign to mobilize young Methodists for racial justice. Ironically, by promising too much, liberal religious education theorists influenced Methodist youth leaders and young people to see themselves...

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Main Author: Bergler, Thomas E. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage Publications 2014
In: Christian education journal
Year: 2014, Volume: 11, Issue: 2, Pages: 392-413
Further subjects:B racial justice
B Youth Ministry
B social activism
B Methodists
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Summary:Between 1930 and 1970, national Methodist youth leaders led a sustained liberal religious education campaign to mobilize young Methodists for racial justice. Ironically, by promising too much, liberal religious education theorists influenced Methodist youth leaders and young people to see themselves as failures, despite their many impressive successes. Their story further suggests that it was not just the rise of new intellectual movements or Christian education theories, but also disillusionment with the results produced by liberal religious education methods that drove changes in 20th-century Christian education.
ISSN:2378-525X
Contains:Enthalten in: Christian education journal
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/073989131401100212