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Author Brown, Candy Gunther

Title The Word in the world : evangelical writing, publishing, and reading in America, 1789-1880 / Candy Gunther Brown
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 336 pages) : illustrations
Contents What is evangelical print culture? -- The world of evangelical publishing -- Marks of membership in an evangelical canon -- Readers and writers navigate the currents of the market -- Earnestly contending for the faith -- Priesthood of all believers -- Singing with the spirit and the understanding -- Unifying the pilgrim community
Summary The evangelical publishing community has been growing for more than two hundred years. Candy Gunther Brown explores the roots of this far-flung conglomeration of writers, publishers, and readers, from the founding of the Methodist Book Concern in 1789 to the 1880 publication of the runaway best-seller Ben-Hur
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-321) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Christian literature -- Publishing -- United States -- History -- 18th century
Christian literature -- Publishing -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Evangelicalism -- United States -- History -- 18th century
Evangelicalism -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Christians -- Books and reading -- United States -- History
Religious newspapers and periodicals -- United States -- History
Music -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Christianity and culture -- United States -- History
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Publishing.
Christian literature -- Publishing
Christianity and culture
Christians -- Books and reading
Evangelicalism
Music -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Religious newspapers and periodicals
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0807863335
9780807863336
9780807828380
0807828386
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0807855111