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UNINA9910959297303321 |
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Autore |
Fyfe Aileen |
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Titolo |
Science and salvation : evangelical popular science publishing in Victorian Britain / / Aileen Fyfe |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2004 |
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9786613150738 |
9781283150736 |
1283150735 |
9780226276465 |
0226276465 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (343 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Religion and science - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Science publishing - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
Evangelicalism - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
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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 (p. 299-309) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The threat of popular science -- Christian knowledge -- Reading fish -- The techniques of evangelical publishing -- The ministry of the press -- Reinterpreting science. |
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Threatened by the proliferation of cheap, mass-produced publications, the Religious Tract Society issued a series of publications on popular science during the 1840's. The books were intended to counter the developing notion that science and faith were mutually exclusive, and the Society's authors employed a full repertoire of evangelical techniques-low prices, simple language, carefully structured narratives-to convert their readers. The application of such techniques to popular science resulted in one of the most widely available sources of information on the sciences in the Victorian era. A fascinating study of the tenuous relationship between science and religion in evangelical publishing, Science and Salvation examines questions of practice and faith from a fresh perspective. Rather than highlighting works by expert men of science, Aileen Fyfe instead considers a group of relatively undistinguished authors who used thinly veiled Christian rhetoric to |
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