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

by Pamela J. Walker

Those people in uniforms who ring bells and raise money for the poor during the holiday season belong to a religious movement that in 1865 combined early feminism, street preaching, holiness theology, and intentionally outrageous singing into what soon became the Salvation Army. In Pulling the Devil's Kingdom Down, Pamela Walker emphasizes how thoroughly the Army entered into nineteenth-century urban life. She follows the movement from its...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520225910
• ISBN13: 9780520225916
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"