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Science and salvation : evangelical popular science publishing in Victorian Britain / Aileen Fyfe.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fyfe, Aileen.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religious Tract Society (Great Britain)--History--19th century.
- Religious Tract Society (Great Britain).
- Religion and science--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Religion and science.
- Science publishing--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Science publishing.
- Evangelicalism--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Evangelicalism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (343 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Threatened by the proliferation of cheap, mass-produced publications, the Religious Tract Society issued a series of publications on popular science during the 1840's. The books were intended to counter the developing notion that science and faith were mutually exclusive, and the Society's authors employed a full repertoire of evangelical techniques-low prices, simple language, carefully structured narratives-to convert their readers. The application of such techniques to popular science resulted in one of the most widely available sources of information on the sciences in the Victorian era. A fascinating study of the tenuous relationship between science and religion in evangelical publishing, Science and Salvation examines questions of practice and faith from a fresh perspective. Rather than highlighting works by expert men of science, Aileen Fyfe instead considers a group of relatively undistinguished authors who used thinly veiled Christian rhetoric to educate first, but to convert as well. This important volume is destined to become essential reading for historians of science, religion, and publishing alike.
- Contents:
- The threat of popular science
- Christian knowledge
- Reading fish
- The techniques of evangelical publishing
- The ministry of the press
- Reinterpreting science.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-309) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613150738
- 9781283150736
- 1283150735
- 9780226276465
- 0226276465
- OCLC:
- 721195324
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