The Social Gospel also flourished within black churches

Evidence

Although usually presented as a white phenomenon, the Social Gospel movement flourished in black churches. Baptist and African Methodist Episcopal Churches, as well as black churches of other denominations, established a variety of social and economic programs, and some even adopted the title “institutional church” like their white counterparts. The concept of the institutional church operated in much the same way as the settlement house in addressing its programs to the plight of the urban poor. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 796

Categorization

• XREF: Challenges the common framing of the Social Gospel as white-only; connects to broader revisionist historiography of black institutional life. — connects to: Spiritual salvation and political racial advancement were fused in black church tradition — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 565; The black church served as the primary autonomous arena for racial self-help after Reconstruction. — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 52; Black Baptist women’s church work absorbed secular Progressive-era sociological methods — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 791 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Evangelicals traded collective social redemption for individual salvation as liberalism embraced the Social Gospel #qualifies (0.80) — Randall Balmer, Bad Faith, 55
• Black Baptist women’s church work absorbed secular Progressive-era sociological methods #exemplifies (0.78) — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 791
• Black social Christianity rested on many small givers, not wealthy patrons #expands (0.76)