week 9 blog

I think what Jane Addams did with the Hull House definately had some religios motivations. The portion that we read in class quoted Jane as saying that she started to notice the development of a religion that was secular in nature. I think that she saw this happening and wanted to change it. It is not surprising that religion was starting to fade into the background and become more secular. As mentioned in class, all the people coming to the Chicago would have come from different relgious background with different traditions and this makes it hard to establish one for the community. I think that Jane Addams saw this problem and wanted to create a community sense to solve this problem. She saw the problem that religion was fading into the background because of conflicting tradtions and she knew it would be a challenge for it to be fixed on its own. She wanted to create new traditions and establish a new sense of community and symobls with what was availabe. I think that she definately had religios motivations and I think they she wanted to create a community sense.