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UNINA9910827390903321 |
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Titolo |
Religion and the culture of print in modern America / / edited by Charles L. Cohen and Paul S. Boyer |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Madison, Wis., : University of Wisconsin Press, c2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-59478-8 |
9786612594786 |
0-299-22573-9 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (394 p.) |
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Collana |
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Print culture history in modern America |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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CohenCharles Lloyd |
BoyerPaul S |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Religious literature - Publishing - United States |
Religious institutions - Publishing - United States |
Tract societies - United States |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Part 1: Religion and Print Culture in American History""; ""Religion, Print Culture, and the Bible before 1876""; ""From Tracts to Mass-Market Paperbacks: Spreading the Word via the Printed Page in America from the Early National Era to the Present""; ""Part 2: Printing Religious Fictions and Facts,1800-1920""; ""Quakers in American Print Culture, 1800-1950""; ""The Mythic Mission Lands: Medical Missionary Literature, American Children, and Cultural Identity""; ""Joseph B. Keeler, Print Culture, and the Modernization of Mormonism, 1885-1918"" |
""Part 3: Print Culture and Religious Group Identity""""The Select Few: The Megiddo Message and the Building of a Community""; """Is This We Have among Us Here a Jew?" The Hillel Review and Jewish Identity at the University of Wisconsin, 1925-31""; ""Part 4: The Print Culture of Fundamentalism""; ""Fundamentalist Cartoons, Modernist Pamphlets, and the Religious Image of Science in the Scopes Era""; ""Reports from the Front Lines of Fundamentalism: William Bell Riley's The Pilot and Its Correspondents, 1920-47""; ""Part 5: Popular Print Culture and Consumerism,1920-50"" |
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""The Religious Book Club: Print Culture, Consumerism, and the Spiritual Life of American Protestants between the Wars""""Psychology and Mysticism in 1940's Religion: Reading the Readers of Fosdick, Liebman, and Merton""; ""Part 6: Religion and Print Culture in Contemporary America""; ""Healing Words: Narratives of Spiritual Healing and Kathryn Kuhlman's Uses of Print Culture, 1947-76""; ""New Age Feminism? Reading the Woman's "New Age" Nonfiction Best Seller in the United States""; ""The Bible-zine Revolve and the Evolution of the Culturally Relevant Bible in America""; ""Contributors"" |
""Index"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 "Bible-zines"--have shaped and been shaped by experiences of faith since the Civil War. |
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