...The first major event in the modernization of religious publishing in the twentieth century was the Religious Book Week of the 1920s, an initiative spearheaded by Frederic Melcher and the National Association of Book Publishers. Religious Book Week brought together an emerging American consumerism...

...This chapter describes the growth of the great national, non-profit religious publishing societies during the second and third decades of the 19th century. It focuses on the American Bible Society, the American Tract Society, and the American Sunday School Union. These societies were innovators...

...This epilogue describes the transition of mainstream religious publishing from the millennial high of general supplies conducted by great ecumenical societies to the more steady, yet fragmented, world of the denominational publisher. By the early 1860s, the largest religious publisher in America...

... the story of the noncommercial origins of mass media in America. The theme is how religious publishers learned to work against the flow of ordinary commerce. Religious publishing societies believed that reading was too important to be left to the “market revolution”; they sought to foil the market through...

...This book is a historical examination of selected popular religious books from the twentieth century, as well as the communities of readers and writers for whom they were important. It emphasizes the enduring importance of religious publishing in the history of print culture in twentieth-century...

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... George Stopford Edward Adderley To the Clergy and Parents Stopford General Observations on Revivalism Hodges Smith and Co religious publishing Ireland religious revival religion A prominent feature of religious publishing in the nineteenth century is the ‘families’ of publications that developed...

... of mass publishing. It first considers the business of religious publishing and the characteristics of popular religious texts, including social gospel novels and those dealing with the Bible before turning to the Christians’ relationship to fiction. Finally, it discusses the controversy surrounding...

...This chapter discusses Catholic religious publishing in nineteenth-century Ireland. The production of Catholic literature in Ireland flourished throughout the period. The majority of this was produced in Dublin, and to a lesser extent in the provincial cities and towns. Producing ‘Catholic books...

... of the religious publishing industry. This chapter also mentions the fact that intellectually sophisticated people experience God as deeply as do ecstatic snake-handling Pentecostals. belief in God smart people books theologians religious publishing industry intellectually sophisticated people Lately, I have...

...This chapter examines the field of religious publishing in the 1970s and early 1980s by focusing on Hal Lindsey and C. C. Carlson's The Late Great Planet Earth (1970), a layperson's guide to end-times prophecy, and placing it in its evangelical cultures of letters. Drawing...

... religious tracts religious publishing printed materials Ireland Christianity Catholics The Religious Tract Society was an evangelical, interdenominational Protestant organization, founded in London in 1799. Its original aim was to produce and distribute religious tracts to convert the working classes...

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...The Introduction outlines the broad themes and arguments of the book, and provides critical background in late nineteenth-century religious publishing and liberal religious intellectual life. The philosophers William James and Rufus Jones articulated approaches to religion, rooted in psychology...

...The venerable publishing house Harper and Brothers emerged in the late 1920s and 1930s as the firm that best represented the modernization and professionalization of religious publishing in the interwar period. Led by Eugene Exman, the religion department at Harper's produced a series...