Image from Google Jackets

Religion and the culture of print in modern America [electronic resource] / edited by Charles L. Cohen and Paul S. Boyer.

Contributor(s): Series: Print culture history in modern AmericaPublication details: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2008.Description: 1 online resource (xx, 369 p.) : illISBN:
  • 9780299225735 (electronic bk.)
  • 0299225739 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Religion and the culture of print in modern America.DDC classification:
  • 200.973 22
LOC classification:
  • Z286.R4 R43 2008eb
Online resources:
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.
Review: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
No physical items for this record

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

Description based on print version record.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.