The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789-1880Univ of North Carolina Press, 2004 - 336 páginas The recent success of the Left Behind book series, which sold over 50 million books, points to an enormous readership of evangelical Christian literature that has not gone unnoticed by the mainstream publishing world. But this is not a recent phenomenon; |
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What Is Evangelical Print Culture? | 27 |
The World of Evangelical Publishing | 46 |
Marks of Membership in an Evangelical Canon | 79 |
Readers and Writers Navigate the Currents of the Market | 115 |
The Uses of Evangelical Print Culture | 139 |
Earnestly Contending for the Faith | 141 |
Priesthood of All Believers | 167 |
Singing with the Spirit | 190 |
Unifying the Pilgrim Community | 213 |
The Word in the World of TwentyfirstCentury American Culture | 243 |
Notes | 249 |
Bibliography | 275 |
Index | 321 |
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