Religion and the Culture of Print in Modern America

Book Overview

Mingling God and Mammon, piety and polemics, and prescriptions for this world and the next, modern Americans have created a culture of print that is vibrantly religious. From America's beginnings, the printed word has played a central role in articulating, propagating, defending, critiquing, and sometimes attacking religious belief. In the last two centuries the United States has become both the leading producer and consumer of print and one of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299225747
• ISBN13: 9780299225742
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.8"