William Booth (1) (1829–1912)
Auteur van In Engelands donkerste wildernissen en de weg ter ontkoming.
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William Booth (1) via een alias veranderd in General Booth.
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Fotografie: 1909 photograph (George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction number: LC-DIG-ggbain-03777)
Werken van William Booth
Titels zijn toegeschreven aan General Booth.
Salvation Soldiery: A Series of Addresses on the Requirement of Jesus Christ's Service (1890) 4 exemplaren
The Letters of William and Catherine Booth: Founders of the Salvation Army: Extracted from the Booth Papers in the… (2003) 2 exemplaren
Liederen van het Leger des Heils 2 exemplaren
Letters to Salvationists on Love, Marriage and Home: Being Volume 2 of Religion for Everyday Life (2010) 2 exemplaren
Heathen England, and What To Do for It: Being a Description of the Utterly Godless Condition of the Vast Majority of… (2018) 1 exemplaar
Salvation Music 1 exemplaar
To My Staff Officers Throughout the World 1 exemplaar
Future of Missions and the Mission of the Future 1 exemplaar
Doctrines and Rules of the Christian Mission 1 exemplaar
Salvation Music Vol. 2 1 exemplaar
Orders and Regulations 1 exemplaar
The Salvation Soldier's Song Book 1 exemplaar
The Salvation War, 1884 1 exemplaar
The Salvation War, 1885 1 exemplaar
How to Be Saved 1 exemplaar
International Staff Council Addresses 1904 1 exemplaar
International Congress Addresses 1904 1 exemplaar
The Founder Speaks 1 exemplaar
Combat Songs of the Salvation Army 1 exemplaar
Hvad är General Booth sociala plan? : Ett kortfattadt sammandrag af " In darkest England and the way out." 1 exemplaar
Salvation Army Songs 1 exemplaar
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Into Unknown England, 1866-1913: Selections from the Social Explorers (1976) — Medewerker — 22 exemplaren
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Booth is quick to dismiss the idea that this book is utopian, claiming that it's all actually achievable. The reason for this is essentially twofold. First, General Booth has statistics on his side. Secondly, everything he wants to do is completely practical. His big thing is to attack the actual causes of social maladies, something I think the Victorians in general were becoming more and more aware of. For example, he argues, the reason women become prostitutes isn't because they have low moral character, but because other people take advantage of women who have no other recourse. Similarly, alcohol isn't the cause of a problem, but a symptom of one.
He is also opposed to revolutionaries because their schemes of impossible hope make it difficult for him to recruit, and anyway the issue isn't some Bellamy-style top-down reorganization of society, but of changing individual behaviors to be more ethical; at one point he refers to his work as "revolutionising the character of those whose faults are the reason for their destitution" (252). It's sort of an interesting mix between increasing both social responsibility and individual responsibility. But it's all up to the Salvation Army to take the lead, because neither government nor society nor individuals are going to step up on their own.
Anyway, the most interesting parts of the book to a modern reader (or me, at least) are those where he articulates whys of his approach. In the rest of the book, there's a lot of hows, and they're very specific to both his time and place and his way of seeing the world. For example, he wants to establish New Britain, The Colony Over-Sea, which he calls "the unmooring of a little piece of England" (152), which has that usual nineteenth-century implication that all the continents that aren't Europe don't actually have people already living there. The schemes and data are also relayed in exhaustive detail.… (meer)