Diane Winston's study of the Salvation Army's American urban religious culture from its 1880 landing in New York onward, examining how the movement borrowed the idioms of popular entertainment, brass bands, uniforms, street preaching and its own illustrated periodical, The War Cry, to deliver its message and fund its social relief work in the industrial city.
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Reliability Tier1
Diane Winston's Red-Hot and Righteous, published by Harvard University Press, is treated at the top tier as academic press scholarship examining the Salvation Army's American urban religious culture through primary period sources. NotesA Harvard University Press monograph using performance theory and material culture to read the Army's publicity and print culture; used here for The War Cry's founding and role and for the Army's American urban social ministry.
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AuthorDiane Winston
PublisherHarvard University Press (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Publication Year1999
Source Typeacademic monograph
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This source names New York directly: "culture from its 1880 landing in New York onward, examining how the movement borrowed the idioms of popular entertainment, brass bands, uniforms, street preaching and its own illustrated periodical..."
Source Red-Hot and Righteous: The Urban Religion of The Salvation ArmyDiane Winston
Claims Backed By This Source (15 claims)
This source backs 15 claims across the atlas. As facts: 11 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Articles, 5 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Denominations, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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