The Social Gospel movement had far-reaching cultural impact: it energized liberal Protestantism, instilled and deepened social consciousness at various levels of American society, and helped catalyze some of the most important social reform efforts and organizations of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Progressive Era, including women’s suffrage and Prohibition, Alcoholics Anonymous, and the YMCA. Indeed, some scholars have described the Social Gospel movement as the Third Great Awakening, similar in scope and impact to the colonial-era religious revivals of the Great Awakening
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