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Book Review

Canada and the United States


Lillian Taiz. Hallelujah Lads and Lasses: Remaking the Salvation Army in America, 1880–1930. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2001. Pp. xiv, 239. Cloth $39.95, paper $16.95.

Two signs at the Salvation Army headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, illustrate the religious organization's dual identity. On one side of the building passersby are told something they may have forgotten or not otherwise know: "We Are a Church." From the elevated parkway a larger sign is visible: "A United Way Agency." Lillian Taiz's study of the Salvation Army's progress in America from the 1880s through the 1920s describes the institution's rise from humble Holiness roots to become a mainstream social services provider with enormous fund-raising power. One price of success was the sacrifice of its appeal as a spiritually and emotionally "red hot" evangelistic working-class movement. As a "church," it soldiered on with a small corps of officers and loyal second and third-generation members. Taiz seems to be recounting a generational declension narrative, a storyline familiar to American religious historians. Her brief concluding chapter suggests that at least something persists of the Salvation Army's original countercultural tension with the world. . . .


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