Origins of the Salvation Army
Title | Origins of the Salvation Army PDF eBook |
Author | Norman Murdoch |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2014-09-19 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 172523498X |
The Salvation Army is today one of the world's best-known and best-regarded religious and charitable movements. In this deeply researched study, Norman Murdoch offers some surprising new insights into the denomination's origins and its growth into an international organization. Murdoch follows the lives and work of the Army's founders, William and Catherine Booth, from their beginnings as Wesleyan evangelists in the 1850s to their inauguration of a Utopian social plan in 1890. In particular, Murdoch identifies quick accommodation to failure as a persistent theme in the Army's early history. When the Booth's East End mission faltered in the mid-1870s, Booth took his preaching to the provincial towns. The failure of that ministry led him in 1878 to reorganize his efforts along then-popular military lines, and the Salvation Army was born. With women as its "shock troops," this Christian imperium would spread beyond Britain's boundaries to become as international in scope as Victoria's empire. Challenging various notions popularized in the denomination's official histories, this book will be of special interest to historians of nineteenth-century social reform, scholars of evangelical Protestantism, and readers interested in the relationship between class and religion in the Anglo-American world.
Christianity in Action
Title | Christianity in Action PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Gariepy |
Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Pages | 303 |
Release | 2009-09-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0802848419 |
This meticulously researched yet engaging book traces The Salvation Army s history of service from its beginnings in Victorian England to its present-day mission in all parts of the world. / A phenomenal religious movement, acclaimed for its compassionate service, The Salvation Army now works in no fewer than 118 countries, yet no contemporary book has chronicled this high-profile organization until now. Henry Gariepy s well-written, comprehensive account effectively fills that gap.
In Darkest England and the Way out
Title | In Darkest England and the Way out PDF eBook |
Author | General William Booth |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2019-09-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3734081750 |
Reproduction of the original: In Darkest England and the Way out by General William Booth
Outlines of Salvation Army History
Title | Outlines of Salvation Army History PDF eBook |
Author | Salvation Army |
Publisher | |
Pages | 110 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | Salvation army |
ISBN |
Red-Hot and Righteous
Title | Red-Hot and Righteous PDF eBook |
Author | Diane Winston |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2009-06-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780674045262 |
In this engrossing study of religion, urban life, and commercial culture, Diane Winston shows how a (self-styled "red-hot") militant Protestant mission established a beachhead in the modern city. When The Salvation Army, a British evangelical movement, landed in New York in 1880, local citizens called its eye-catching advertisements "vulgar" and dubbed its brass bands, female preachers, and overheated services "sensationalist." Yet a little more than a century later, this ragtag missionary movement had evolved into the nation's largest charitable fund-raiser--the very exemplar of America's most cherished values of social service and religious commitment. Winston illustrates how the Army borrowed the forms and idioms of popular entertainments, commercial emporiums, and master marketers to deliver its message. In contrast to histories that relegate religion to the sidelines of urban society, her book shows that Salvationists were at the center of debates about social services for the urban poor, the changing position of women, and the evolution of a consumer culture. She also describes Salvationist influence on contemporary life--from the public's post-World War I (and ongoing) love affair with the doughnut to the Salvationist young woman's career as a Hollywood icon to the institutionalization of religious ideals into nonsectarian social programs. Winston's vivid account of a street savvy religious mission transformed over the decades makes adroit use of performance theory and material culture studies to create an evocative portrait of a beloved yet little understood religious movement. Her book provides striking evidence that, counter to conventional wisdom, religion was among the seminal social forces that shaped modern, urban America--and, in the process, found new expression for its own ideals.
Blood and Fire
Title | Blood and Fire PDF eBook |
Author | Roy Hattersley |
Publisher | Abacus |
Pages | 569 |
Release | 2017-07-06 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0349143080 |
An uneducated youth, William Booth left home in 1849 at the age of twenty to preach the gospel for the New Methodist Connexion. Six years later he founded a new religious movement which succeeded to such a degree that the Salvation Army (which it became) is now a worldwide operation with massive membership. But that is only part of Booth's importance and heritage. In many ways his story is also that of the Victorian poor, as he and his wife Catherine made it their lives' work to battle against the poverty and deprivation which were endemic in the mid- to late 1800s. Indeed, it was Catherine who, although a chronic invalid, inspired the Army's social policy and attitude to female authority. Her campaign against child prostitution resulted in the age of consent being raised and it was Catherine who, dying of cancer, encouraged William to clear the slums -- In Darkest England, The Way Out. Roy Hattersley's masterful dual biography is not just the story of two fascinating lives but a portrait of an integral part of our history.
Marching to Glory
Title | Marching to Glory PDF eBook |
Author | Edward H. McKinley |
Publisher | Harper San Francisco |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780060655389 |
A one hundred year history of the Salvation Army in the United States from the time William Booth sent George Scott Railton in 1880 to 1980. Describes the spread of the Army throughout the country and it's contribution to society.