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Religion and the culture of print in modern America / edited by Charles L. Cohen and Paul S. Boyer.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Print culture history in modern America.
- Print culture history in modern America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religious literature--Publishing--United States.
- Religious literature.
- Religious institutions--Publishing--United States.
- Religious institutions.
- Tract societies--United States.
- Tract societies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (394 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Explores how a variety of print media--religious tracts, newsletters, cartoons, pamphlets, self-help books, mass-market paperbacks, and editions of the Bible from the King James Version to contemporary "Bible-zines"--have shaped and been shaped by experiences of faith since the Civil War.
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Part 1: Religion and Print Culture in American History""; ""Religion, Print Culture, and the Bible before 1876""; ""From Tracts to Mass-Market Paperbacks: Spreading the Word via the Printed Page in America from the Early National Era to the Present""; ""Part 2: Printing Religious Fictions and Facts,1800-1920""; ""Quakers in American Print Culture, 1800-1950""; ""The Mythic Mission Lands: Medical Missionary Literature, American Children, and Cultural Identity""; ""Joseph B. Keeler, Print Culture, and the Modernization of Mormonism, 1885-1918""
- ""Part 3: Print Culture and Religious Group Identity""""The Select Few: The Megiddo Message and the Building of a Community""; """Is This We Have among Us Here a Jew?" The Hillel Review and Jewish Identity at the University of Wisconsin, 1925-31""; ""Part 4: The Print Culture of Fundamentalism""; ""Fundamentalist Cartoons, Modernist Pamphlets, and the Religious Image of Science in the Scopes Era""; ""Reports from the Front Lines of Fundamentalism: William Bell Riley's The Pilot and Its Correspondents, 1920-47""; ""Part 5: Popular Print Culture and Consumerism,1920-50""
- ""The Religious Book Club: Print Culture, Consumerism, and the Spiritual Life of American Protestants between the Wars""""Psychology and Mysticism in 1940's Religion: Reading the Readers of Fosdick, Liebman, and Merton""; ""Part 6: Religion and Print Culture in Contemporary America""; ""Healing Words: Narratives of Spiritual Healing and Kathryn Kuhlman's Uses of Print Culture, 1947-76""; ""New Age Feminism? Reading the Woman's "New Age" Nonfiction Best Seller in the United States""; ""The Bible-zine Revolve and the Evolution of the Culturally Relevant Bible in America""; ""Contributors""
- ""Index""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612594786
- 9781282594784
- 1282594788
- 9780299225735
- 0299225739
- OCLC:
- 550534200
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