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- Title
The Orphanage Microcosm: Shifts in Social, Institutional, and Gender Dynamics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century in the Georgia Baptist Orphans' Home.
- Authors
Dickson, Alyson
- Abstract
The article discusses the founding of the Georgia Baptist Orphans' Home by Southern Baptists following the U.S. Civil War, exploring the rise of a socially engaged ecclesiology by Baptists leaders. It describes the Baptist understanding of social justice and a socially engaged theology, the relationship between the institutionalization of orphan care and gender construction among Southern Baptists, and the role of women in the orphanages work. Other subjects under discussion include the Southern Baptist Social Service Commission, the Baptist Woman's Missionary Union of Georgia (GA WMU), and the Georgia Baptist Convention (GBC).
- Subjects
UNITED States; BAPTIST missions; BAPTISTS; BAPTISTS -- Societies, etc.; HISTORY of American Baptists; BAPTIST women; ORPHANAGES; ORPHANS; POLITICAL participation; HISTORY
- Publication
Baptist History & Heritage, 2009, Vol 44, Issue 3, p81
- ISSN
0005-5719
- Publication type
Article