The wilderness, the nation, and the electronic era : American Christianity and religious communication, 1620-2000 : an annotated bibliography / Elmer J. O'Brien.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Brien, Elmer J.

Series:

ATLA bibliography series ; no. 57.

ATLA bibliography series ; no. 57

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication--Religious aspects--Christianity--Bibliography.

Communication.

United States--Church history--Bibliography.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (688 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press ; [Chicago, IL] : American Theological Library Association, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Wilderness, the Nation, and the Electronic Era: American Christianity and Religious Communication 1620-2000: An Annotated Bibliography has over 2,400 annotations of books, book chapters, essays, periodical articles, and selected dissertations dealing with the various means and technologies of Christian communication used by clergy, churches, denominations, benevolent associations, printers, booksellers, publishing houses, and individuals and movements in their efforts to disseminate news, knowledge, and information about religious beliefs and life in the United States from colonial times t

Contents:

Foreword / by Leonard I. Sweet

Bibliographical sources

General studies

Colonial period, 1620-1689

Colonial period, religious ferment, and the new nation, 1690-1799

Growth of the nation, 1800-1860

The Civil War and rapid technological development, 1861-1919

The modern electronic era, 1920-2000.

Notes:

Includes indexes.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

1-282-51991-3

9786612519918

0-8108-6313-8

OCLC:

434066316