Matthew S. Hedstrom

The Rise of Liberal Religion (eBook, ePUB)

Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In The Rise of Liberal Religion Matthew Hedstrom tells the story of how, beginning in the 1920s, American religious leaders joined forces with the publishing industry in an attempt to form a ''spiritual center'' -- a set of widely accepted religious ideas, practices, and presuppositions that would hold together a fragmenting society, create new markets for books, and maintain the privileged status of these arbiters in American religious discourse.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190452001
• Artikelnr.: 42620364

Autorenporträt

Matthew S. Hedstrom is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Religious Studies at the University of Virginia.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Chapter 1: Enlarging the Faith: Books and the Marketing of Liberal
Religion in a Consumer Culture
* Chapter 2: The Religious Book Club: Middlebrow Culture and Liberal
Protestant Seeker Spirituality
* Chapter 3: Publishing for Seekers: Eugene Exman and the Religious
Bestsellers of Harper and Brothers
* Chapter 4: Religious Reading Mobilized: The Book Programs of World
War II
* Chapter 5: Inventing Interfaith: The Wartime Reading Campaign of the
National Conference of Christians and Jews
* Chapter 6: Religious Reading in the Wake of War: American
Spirituality in the 1940s
* Conclusion
* Archival Collections
* Notes
* Index