Andrew Mark Eason is a PhD candidate in Religious Studies at the University of Calgary and is writing a dissertation on Salvation Army foreign missions from Britain to India and Southern Africa.
``[This book] offers a fascinating and carefully nuanced study of
the place of women in the early Salvation Army...This text will
make a fine addition to academic libraries serving those who want
to apply recent feminist scholarship to denominational histories.''
-- Choice
``The editors of Wilfrid Laurier University's series on Women and
Religion should be congratulated, as should the author himself, for
this book is precisely the kind of work that will add to the
rapidly growing field of gender and world religion....As a critical
and respectful treatment of gender relations in the Salvation Army,
this book will find a wide readership among generalists and
specialists alike.'' -- Myra Rutherdale, Canadian Journal of
History -- 200606
``This is a valuable and pioneering study by a young scholar of
promise.'' -- Stuart Mews, University of Gloucestershire -- English
Historical Review, February 2007, 200703
``I found the book fascinating and its message disillusioning. For
people interested in the history of gender in Britain and in
women's ministry, this examination of a narrow slice of time, which
was so fundamental in shaping the world we live in today, is well
worth a look.'' -- Janet Wootton, Feminist Theology
``A welcome addition to scholarship concerning evangelical women's
ministries. Eason's book offers a far more nuanced analysis of the
theology and practices of both William and Catherine Booth and the
practices of the Salvation Army.'' -- Nancy A. Hardesty, Professor
of Religion,Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina
``A useful addition to undergraduate courses on women and religion
as well as a welcome contribution to the study of
nineteenth-century religious movements, in general, and the
Salvation Army in particular.'' -- Diane Winston, University of
Southern California, ChurchHistory
``A fine piece of research and analysis. Eason's range of interest
is extensive, and he skilfully weaves into his thesis such
doctrinal matters as the influence of Methodism, the impact of
American revivalism, the Army's emphasis on holiness, and the move
away from sacraments....As a systematic analysis of how egalitarian
concepts played themselves out in a religious denomination which
consciously modelled itself on authoritarian military structure,
this study reveals yet one more fascinating aspect of the complex
exchange between religious forms and cultural norms in the
Victorian era.'' -- Marguerite Van Die, University of Toronto
Quarterly--Letters in Canada 2003 -- 200510
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