Red-Hot and Righteous : : The Urban Religion of The Salvation Army / / Diane Winston.

• VerfasserIn: Winston, Diane,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

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 cit...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• 1 The Cathedral of the Open Air, 1880–1886
• 2 The New Woman, 1886–1896
• 3 The Red Crusade, 1896–1904
• 4 The Commander in Rags, 1904–1918
• 5 Fires of Faith, 1919–1950
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Index