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What would Jesus read? : popular religious books and everyday life in twentieth-century America / Erin A. Smith.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781469621340
  • 1469621347
  • 9781469621333
  • 1469621339
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: What would Jesus read?.DDC classification:
  • 261.5/8 23
LOC classification:
  • BR117 .S55 2015eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. The Social Gospel and the Literary Marketplace -- 1. What Would Jesus Do? Reading and Social Action -- 2. The Dickens of the Rural Route: Harold Bell Wright and Christian Melodrama -- PART II. The 1920s Religious Renaissance -- 3. Good Books Build Character: Promoting Religious Reading in the 1920s -- 4. Jesus, My Pal: Reading Bruce Barton�s Jesus -- PART III. America�s God and Cold War Religious Reading -- 5. Pealeism and Its Discontents: Cold War Religion, Intellectuals, and the Middlebrow
6. The Cult of Reassurance: Religion, Therapy, and Containment CulturePART IV. Reading the Apocalypse: Christian Bookselling in the 1970s and 1980s -- 7. The Late Great Planet Earth and Evangelical Cultures of Letters in the 1970s and 1980s -- 8. End-Times Prophecy for Dummies: The Late Great Planet Earth -- PART V. The Decade of the Soul: The 1990s and Beyond -- 9. Books for the Seeker: Liberal Religion and the Literary Marketplace in the 1990s -- 10. The New Gnosticism: Gender, Heresy, and Religious Community -- Conclusion -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Bibliography
IndexA -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Z
Summary: Since the late 19th century, religiously themed books in America have been commercially popular yet scorned by critics. Working at the intersection of literary history, lived religion and consumer culture, Erin A. Smith considers the largely unexplored world of popular religious books, examining the apparent tension between economic and religious imperatives for authors, publishers and readers.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)965073

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. The Social Gospel and the Literary Marketplace -- 1. What Would Jesus Do? Reading and Social Action -- 2. The Dickens of the Rural Route: Harold Bell Wright and Christian Melodrama -- PART II. The 1920s Religious Renaissance -- 3. Good Books Build Character: Promoting Religious Reading in the 1920s -- 4. Jesus, My Pal: Reading Bruce Barton�s Jesus -- PART III. America�s God and Cold War Religious Reading -- 5. Pealeism and Its Discontents: Cold War Religion, Intellectuals, and the Middlebrow

6. The Cult of Reassurance: Religion, Therapy, and Containment CulturePART IV. Reading the Apocalypse: Christian Bookselling in the 1970s and 1980s -- 7. The Late Great Planet Earth and Evangelical Cultures of Letters in the 1970s and 1980s -- 8. End-Times Prophecy for Dummies: The Late Great Planet Earth -- PART V. The Decade of the Soul: The 1990s and Beyond -- 9. Books for the Seeker: Liberal Religion and the Literary Marketplace in the 1990s -- 10. The New Gnosticism: Gender, Heresy, and Religious Community -- Conclusion -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Bibliography

IndexA -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Z

Since the late 19th century, religiously themed books in America have been commercially popular yet scorned by critics. Working at the intersection of literary history, lived religion and consumer culture, Erin A. Smith considers the largely unexplored world of popular religious books, examining the apparent tension between economic and religious imperatives for authors, publishers and readers.