Response to Tammi

Tammi wrote that she did not see Jane Addams’ mission with the Hull House as religious but more aimed towards teaching women ‘how to live life to the fullest and basic survival skills.’ I would agree with this argument. I think that the website was set up in a way that allows for a person to interpret the website as religious but I don’t think Jane Addams’ mission was religious. Addams was raised as a Quaker and more nondenominational which to me keeps an open mind towards the thoughts of others but in no way pushes certain beliefs unto others. Aside from the caption of a photo in the time line describing that Addams was wearing a cross no other strikingly religious ideas are conveyed from what we can see about Jane Addams. I would think that she was pushing a feminist movement in teaching the women skills they would not otherwise have the opportunity to experience such as sewing, and singing as a group as pictured in the time line with the women gathered around a piano. She was giving support to women rather than showing them a religious path.