What would Jesus read? : popular religious books and everyday life in twentieth-century America / Erin A. Smith.
2015
261.58 S646w 2015
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Title
What would Jesus read? : popular religious books and everyday life in twentieth-century America / Erin A. Smith.
ISBN
9781469621326 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1469621320 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781469621333 (ebook)
1469621320 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781469621333 (ebook)
Published
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
Language
English
Description
xiii, 394 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
261.58 S646w 2015
System Control No.
(OCoLC)893452520
(OCoLC)893452520
(OCoLC)893452520
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-390) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Part I. The social gospel and the literary marketplace. What would Jesus do?: reading and social action
The Dickens of the rural route: Harold Bell Wright and Christian melodrama
Part II. The 1920s religious renaissance. Good books build character: promoting religious reading in the 1920s
Jesus, my pal: reading Bruce Barton's Jesus
Part III. America's God and Cold War religious reading. Pealeism and its discontents: Cold War religion, intellectuals, and the middlebrow
The cult of reassurance: religion, therapy, and containment culture
Part IV. Reading the apocalypse: Christian bookselling in the 1970s and 1980s. The Late great planet earth and evangelical cultures of letters in the 1970s and 1980s
End-times prophecy for dummies: The Late great planet earth
Part V. The decade of the soul: the 1990s and beyond. Books for the seeker: liberal religion and the literary marketplace in the 1990s
The new Gnosticism: gender, heresy, and religious community.
The Dickens of the rural route: Harold Bell Wright and Christian melodrama
Part II. The 1920s religious renaissance. Good books build character: promoting religious reading in the 1920s
Jesus, my pal: reading Bruce Barton's Jesus
Part III. America's God and Cold War religious reading. Pealeism and its discontents: Cold War religion, intellectuals, and the middlebrow
The cult of reassurance: religion, therapy, and containment culture
Part IV. Reading the apocalypse: Christian bookselling in the 1970s and 1980s. The Late great planet earth and evangelical cultures of letters in the 1970s and 1980s
End-times prophecy for dummies: The Late great planet earth
Part V. The decade of the soul: the 1990s and beyond. Books for the seeker: liberal religion and the literary marketplace in the 1990s
The new Gnosticism: gender, heresy, and religious community.
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