LEADER 03707nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910824052103321 005 20240516052121.0 010 $a1-283-15073-5 010 $a9786613150738 010 $a0-226-27646-5 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226276465 035 $a(CKB)2560000000073266 035 $a(EBL)688820 035 $a(OCoLC)721195324 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000525521 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11340986 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000525521 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10507518 035 $a(PQKB)10582119 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000123080 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC688820 035 $a(DE-B1597)524469 035 $a(OCoLC)1135577757 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226276465 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL688820 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10468516 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL315073 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000073266 100 $a20030806d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aScience and salvation $eevangelical popular science publishing in Victorian Britain /$fAileen Fyfe 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (343 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-27648-1 311 $a0-226-27647-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 299-309) and index. 327 $aThe threat of popular science -- Christian knowledge -- Reading fish -- The techniques of evangelical publishing -- The ministry of the press -- Reinterpreting science. 330 $aThreatened 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 educate first, but to convert as well. This important volume is destined to become essential reading for historians of science, religion, and publishing alike. 606 $aReligion and science$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aScience publishing$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aEvangelicalism$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 610 $apopular science, scientific history, historical change, victorian britain, british, religious tract society, publishing, publishers, evangelical, evangelicalism, christianity, christians, 19th century, faith, religion, cultural studies, practice, rhetoric, ministry, press, monthly series, communication, knowledge, education, conversion. 615 0$aReligion and science$xHistory 615 0$aScience publishing$xHistory 615 0$aEvangelicalism$xHistory 676 $a261.5/5/094109034 700 $aFyfe$b Aileen$01161932 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824052103321 996 $aScience and salvation$94073914 997 $aUNINA