Editing Jane Addams (section)

==Religion and religious motives==
Addams's religious beliefs were shaped by her wide reading and life experience.<ref>Curti, Merle. "JANE ADDAMS ON HUMAN NATURE." Journal of the History of Ideas 22, no. 2 (April 1961): 240–253. Historical Abstracts, EBSCOhost (accessed July 2, 2010).</ref> She saw her settlement work as part of the "[[Social Gospel|social Christian]]" movement.<ref>Knight (2005) p. 174</ref> Addams learned about social Christianity from the co-founders of [[Toynbee Hall]], Samuel and Henrietta Barnett. The Barnetts held a great interest in converting others to Christianity, but they believed that Christians should be more engaged with the world and, in the words of one of the leaders of the social Christian movement in England, W. H. Fremantle, "imbue all human relations with the spirit of Christ's self-renouncing love".

According to Christie and Gauvreau (2001), while the Christian settlement houses sought to Christianize, Jane Addams "had come to epitomize the force of secular humanism." Her image was, however, "reinvented" by the Christian churches.<ref>Christie, C., Gauvreau, M. (2001). ''A Full-Orbed Christianity: The Protestant Churches and Social Welfare in Canada, 1900–1940''. McGill-Queen's Press – MQUP, January 19, 2001, p. 107.</ref>

According to Joslin (2004), "The new humanism, as [Addams] interprets it comes from a secular, and not a religious, pattern of belief".<ref>Joslin, K. (2004). ''Jane Addams, a writer's life''. Illinois: University of Illinois press p. 170</ref>

According to the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, "Some social settlements were linked to religious institutions. Others, like Hull-House [co-founded by Addams], were secular."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/_learn/_aboutjane/aboutjane.html|title=Jane Addams Hull-House Museum|access-date=November 29, 2014}}</ref>

Hilda Satt Polacheck, a former resident of Hull House, stated that Addams firmly believed in religious freedom and bringing people of all faiths into the social, secular fold of Hull House. The one exception, she notes, was the annual Christmas Party, although Addams left the religious side to the church.<ref>Hilda Satt Polacheck. "Notes on Jane Addams". Box 3 Folder 25. Hilda Satt Polacheck Papers. Archival Library, University of Illinois at Chicago.</ref>

The Bible served Addams as both a source of inspiration for her life of service and a manual for pursuing her calling. The emphasis on following Jesus' example and actively advancing the establishment of God's Kingdom on earth is also evident in Addams's work and the Social Gospel movement.