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Item Details
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RELIGION AND THE CULTURE OF PRINT IN MODERN AMERICA
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| By: |
Charles Lloyd Cohen (Editor), Paul S. Boyer (Editor) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£29.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0299225747 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780299225742 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 September, 2008 |
| Series: |
Print Culture History in Modern America |
| Pages: |
392 |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
"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 "Bible-zines" - have shaped and been shaped by experiences of faith since the Civil War. Edited by Charles L. Cohen and Paul S. Boyer, whose comprehensive historical essays provide a broad overview to the topic, this book is the first on the history of religious print culture in modern America and a well-timed entry into the increasingly prominent contemporary debate over the role of religion in American public life. |
| Illustrations: |
26 b/w illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Wisconsin Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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