Religion and the culture of print in modern America [electronic resource] / edited by Charles L. Cohen and Paul S. Boyer. - Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2008. - 1 online resource (xx, 369 p.) : ill. - Print culture history in modern America . - Print culture history in modern America. .

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 / Quakers in American print culture, 1800-1950 / mythic mission lands: medical missionary literature, American children, and cultural identity / Joseph B. Keeler, print culture, and the modernization of Mormonism, 1885-1918 / 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 / 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 / religious book club: print culture, consumerism, and the spiritual life of American Protestants between the wars / Psychology and mysticism in 1940s religion: reading the readers of Fosdick, Liebman, and Merton / 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 / Bible-zine Revolve and the evolution of the culturally relevant Bible in America / Charles L. Cohen -- Paul S. Boyer -- James Emmett Ryan -- Rennie B. Schoepflin -- David J. Whittaker -- Gari-Anne Patzwald -- Jonathan Z. S. Pollack -- Edward B. Davis -- William Vance Trollinger Jr. -- Erin A. Smith -- Matthew S. Hedstrom -- Candy Gunther Brown -- Karlyn Crowley -- Paul C. Gutjahr. The The The The

"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.

9780299225735 (electronic bk.) 0299225739 (electronic bk.)


Religious literature--Publishing--United States.
Religious institutions--Publishing--United States.
Tract societies--United States.


Electronic books.

Z286.R4 / R43 2008eb

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