Pulling the Devil's Kingdom Down: The Salvation Army in Victorian Britain [Hardcover]

Pamela J. Walker (Author)

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Hardcover: 350 pages
Publisher: University of California Press; 1 edition (April 2 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0520225910
ISBN-13: 978-0520225916
Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.9 x 3.1 cm
Shipping Weight: 721 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,058,136 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #97 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Protestantism > Methodist

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In this engaging study, Walker reminds readers of two basic facts: the Salvation Army's origins were British, and it was first and foremost an evangelical religious group, not a charity. Among the book's many accomplishments is setting the sectarian Army in a larger denominational framework; Walker shows that its bureaucratic structures and doctrines drew heavily from Methodism. Walker pays special attention to gender, noting, for example, that women's conversion stories differed from men's. Whereas Christian men often recounted the scarlet peccadilloes of their lives before conversion, "few women described such a sinful past." Finally Walker shows how Salvationists baptized secular working-class culture as Christian, borrowing lowbrow drinking tunes and putting religious lyrics to them. The book has a few flaws. For example, Walker insists that one of the reasons the Army is important is that it shows scholars that religion is not just what happens in church the Army, after all, happened in the streets. But this is something of a straw man, since few scholars of religion limit their vision to cathedrals. Also, although Walker no doubt started this book, which began as a Rutgers dissertation, before Diane Winston's book Red-Hot and Righteous so cogently profiled the Salvation Army in America, there are too many similarities between the two to call Walker's work truly pioneering or original. Still, it is an entertaining, informative and well-researched contribution to the study of religion in the Victorian era. (Apr.)
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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"A valuable and innovative study of the Army which also suggests directions for future research." -- Times Literary Supplement

"The most comprehensive analysis so far." -- History Today

"Walker's research is commendably thorough . . . she is fully at home with holiness theology, 'gender issues' and-her specialty-'conversion narratives.'" -- London Review of Books

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4.0 out of 5 stars interesting information of early Salvationists, which Iam one, Aug 22 2009

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This review is from: Pulling the Devil's Kingdom Down: The Salvation Army in Victorian Britain (Hardcover)

Pulling the Devil's Kingdom Down: The Salvation Army in Victorian Britain Just finished reading ,Pulling the devils Kingdom down. I have read many books on The Salvation Army. This is not another history book on the start of TSA. A lot of research went into this book and it is very clear that the early Salvation Army was a challenge. God in a wonderful way has raised up His Army of Salvation to some 119 countrys with over one million members where the sun never sets on the ,yellow,red and blue blood and fire flag. Come Join our Army to battle we go. Interested in church history this a great read .. Henry Armstrong Winnipeg

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