| Description |
1 online resource (278 pages) |
| Contents |
Enlarging the faith: books and the marketing of liberal religion in a consumer culture -- Religious book club: middlebrow culture and liberal Protestant seeker spirituality -- Publishing for seekers:Eugene Exman and the religious bestsellers of Harper & Brothers -- Religious reading mobilized: the book programs of World War II -- Inventing interfaith: the wartime reading campaign of the National Conference Of Christians And Jews -- Religious reading in the wake of war: American spirituality in the 1940s |
| Summary |
In 'The Rise of Liberal Religion' Matthew Hedstrom tells the story of how, beginning in the 1920s, American religious leaders joined forces with the publishing industry in an attempt to form a 'spiritual center' - a set of widely accepted religious ideas practices, and presuppositions that would hold together a fragmenting society, create new markets for books, and maintain the privileged status of these arbiters in American religious discourse |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Liberalism (Religion) -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Religious literature, American -- Publishing -- History -- 20th century
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RELIGION -- History.
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Religious.
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Liberalism (Religion)
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Religion
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Religion -- History -- 20th century
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012004647 |
| ISBN |
9780199705603 |
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0199705607 |
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1283858363 |
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9781283858366 |
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0190452005 |
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9780190452001 |
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