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Communication and change in American religious history / edited by Leonard I. Sweet.

Contributor(s): Sweet, Leonard I
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Grand Rapids, Mich. : Eerdmans, [1993]Copyright date: ©1993Description: vi, 481 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0802806821Other title: Communication & change in American religious historySubject(s): Communication -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History | United States -- Church historyDDC classification: 277.3 LOC classification: BR517 | .C655 1993Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Communication and change in American religious history: A historiographical probe / Leonard I. Sweet -- Protestantism and capitalism: Print culture and individualism / Martin E. Marty -- Religion, communications, and the career of George Whitefield / Harry S. Stout -- The spirit of the old writers: Print media, the Great Awakening, and continuity in New England / Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe -- From democratization to domestication: The transitional orality of the American Methodist circuit rider / A. Gregory Schnieder -- God, rhetoric, and logic in antebellum American theological education / Glenn T. Miller.
(cont.) Technology and the character of community life in antebellum America: The role of story papers / Ronald J. Zboray -- The millennium and the media / James H. Moorhead -- Systematic benevolence: Religious publishing and the marketplace in early nineteenth-century America / David Paul Nord -- The evangelical enlightenment and the task of theological education / Mark A. Noll -- Preaching to the "faith" of America / David G. Buttrick -- Oral Roberts: Religious media pioneer / David Edwin Harrell, Jr. -- From new thought to new vision: The shamanic paradigm in contemporary spirituality / Catherine L. Albanese -- American Christianity and the history of communication: A bibliograðhic probe / Elmer J. O'Brien.

Cover title: Communication & change in American religious history.

Includes bibliographical references.

Communication and change in American religious history: A historiographical probe / Leonard I. Sweet -- Protestantism and capitalism: Print culture and individualism / Martin E. Marty -- Religion, communications, and the career of George Whitefield / Harry S. Stout -- The spirit of the old writers: Print media, the Great Awakening, and continuity in New England / Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe -- From democratization to domestication: The transitional orality of the American Methodist circuit rider / A. Gregory Schnieder -- God, rhetoric, and logic in antebellum American theological education / Glenn T. Miller.

(cont.) Technology and the character of community life in antebellum America: The role of story papers / Ronald J. Zboray -- The millennium and the media / James H. Moorhead -- Systematic benevolence: Religious publishing and the marketplace in early nineteenth-century America / David Paul Nord -- The evangelical enlightenment and the task of theological education / Mark A. Noll -- Preaching to the "faith" of America / David G. Buttrick -- Oral Roberts: Religious media pioneer / David Edwin Harrell, Jr. -- From new thought to new vision: The shamanic paradigm in contemporary spirituality / Catherine L. Albanese -- American Christianity and the history of communication: A bibliograðhic probe / Elmer J. O'Brien.

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