| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 369 pages) : illustrations |
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Print culture history in modern America |
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Print culture history in modern America.
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| Contents |
Religion, print culture, and the Bible before 1876 / Charles L. Cohen -- From tracts to mass-market paperbacks: spreading the word via the printed page in America from the early national era to the present / Paul S. Boyer -- Quakers in American print culture, 1800-1950 / James Emmett Ryan -- The mythic mission lands: medical missionary literature, American children, and cultural identity / Rennie B. Schoepflin -- Joseph B. Keeler, print culture, and the modernization of Mormonism, 1885-1918 / David J. Whittaker -- The select few: the Megiddo message and the building of a community / Gari-Anne Patzwald -- "Is this we have among us here a Jew?" The Hillel review and Jewish identity at the University of Wisconsin, 1925-31 / Jonathan Z.S. Pollack -- Fundamentalist cartoons, modernist pamphlets, and the religious image of science in the Scopes era / Edward B. Davis -- Reports from the front lines of fundamentalism: William Bell Riley's The Pilot and its correspondents, 1920-47 / William Vance Trollinger Jr. -- The religious book club: print culture, consumerism, and the spiritual life of American Protestants between the wars / Erin A. Smith -- Psychology and mysticism in 1940s religion: reading the readers of Fosdick, Liebman, and Merton / Matthew S. Hedstrom -- Healing words: narratives of spiritual healing and Kathryn Kuhlman's uses of print culture, 1947-76 / Candy Gunther Brown -- New Age feminism? Reading the woman's "New Age" nonfiction best seller in the United States / Karlyn Crowley -- The Bible-zine Revolve and the evolution of the culturally relevant Bible in America / Paul C. Gutjahr |
| Summary |
"Religion and the Culture of Print in Modern America 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 "Biblezines"--Have shaped and been shaped by experiences of faith since the Civil War."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Religious literature -- Publishing -- United States
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Religious institutions -- Publishing -- United States
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Tract societies -- United States
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Religious literature -- Publishing.
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RELIGION -- History.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Religious.
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Religious literature -- Publishing
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Tract societies
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cohen, Charles L
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Boyer, Paul S.
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| ISBN |
9780299225735 |
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0299225739 |
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0299225747 |
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9780299225742 |
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