| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Book Review

Hallelujah Lads & Lasses: Remaking the Salvation Army in America, 1880–1930. By Lillian Taiz. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xviii, 239 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2621-9. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-8078-4935-9.)

In Hallelujah Lads & Lasses, Lillian Taiz presents a clear and comprehensive study of the historical development of the Salvation Army in its formative years in the United States. In its early years, it was a rowdy working-class evangelical movement; during the twentieth century, it became primarily a social service organization with a more sedate religious wing that served upwardly mobile second-generation Salvationists. Taiz looks closely at the background of early Salvationists, particularly those who went on to leadership roles as officers (local preachers). Most were working class, though the Army also attracted a minority from middle-class backgrounds. Taiz sketches out the Army's appeal to both working- and middle-class recruits in offering a sense of community as well as leadership positions and meaningful work. The Army may have had a particular appeal to women, since it was very unusual at that time in encouraging women to preach and in opening even high-level leadership positions to them. Taiz discusses in some detail the Army's shift to social service work, which occurred slightly later in the United States than in England. . . .

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