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Religion And Health Care

For most of the 19th century, no hospital existed in Indianapolis. The city’s residents associated hospitals with facilities where people with long-term illnesses went to die. The medical profession was… Read More »Religion And Health Care

Religion And Politics

As the home of the state capital, as well as branches of local and federal governmental agencies, religion and politics have had nearly constant interaction throughout Indianapolis history. Early Denominational… Read More »Religion And Politics

Religion And Social Services

From the earliest churches in Indianapolis religion and social services have existed in a complex and evolving relationship. As congregations of Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Disciples, Quakers, Lutherans, Catholics, and Jews… Read More »Religion And Social Services

Revivalism

Indianapolis served as a center for religious revivalism from the late-19th to mid-20th centuries. Revivalism is a method whereby a speaker—an evangelist—attempts to bring people to a conversion experience, and… Read More »Revivalism

Sikhs

Sikhism is a distinct religion and the fifth-largest in the world, with a following of over 35 million scattered across the globe. It originated in Punjab in northern India. The… Read More »Sikhs

Sunday Schools

Presbyterian physician Isaac Coe started the first Sunday school in Indianapolis in 1823. The Indianapolis Sabbath School met at Caleb Scudder’s cabinet shop, and the 30 attendant scholars were asked… Read More »Sunday Schools

Temperance and Prohibition

Alcohol long has been an accepted part of American life. By the early 19th century, many people and physicians believed that alcoholic beverages in moderation were beneficial to one’s health.… Read More »Temperance and Prohibition

Unitarians-Universalists

In 1961, the Unitarian and Universalist churches in the United States and Canada merged to form a new body called the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations in North America. Both… Read More »Unitarians-Universalists

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