Communication and change in American religious history /

Communication and change in American religious history / [print] edited by Leonard I. Sweet. - Grand Rapids, Michigan : Eerdmans, (c)1993. - vi, 481 pages ; 23 cm.

Cover title: Communication and change in American religious history.

Includes bibliographical references.

Communication and change in American religious history: A historiographical probe Protestantism and capitalism: Print culture and individualism Religion, communications, and the career of George Whitefield The spirit of the old writers: Print media, the Great Awakening, and continuity in New England From democratization to domestication: The transitional orality of the American Methodist circuit rider God, rhetoric, and logic in antebellum American theological education Leonard I. Sweet -- Martin E. Marty -- Harry S. Stout -- Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe -- A. Gregory Schnieder -- Glenn T. Miller. (cont.) Technology and the character of community life in antebellum America: The role of story papers The millennium and the media Systematic benevolence: Religious publishing and the marketplace in early nineteenth-century America The evangelical enlightenment and the task of theological education Preaching to the "faith" of America Oral Roberts: Religious media pioneer From new thought to new vision: The shamanic paradigm in contemporary spirituality American Christianity and the history of communication: A bibliographic probe Ronald J. Zboray -- James H. Moorhead -- David Paul Nord -- Mark A. Noll -- David G. Buttrick -- David Edwin Harrell, Jr. -- Catherine L. Albanese -- Elmer J. O'Brien.



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Communication--Religious aspects--Christianity--History.

BR517 BR517.S974.C666 1993