Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-390) and index.
Contents:
The social gospel and the literary marketplace. What would Jesus do?: reading and social action -- The Dickens and the rural route: Harold Bell Wright and Christian melodrama -- The 1920s religious renaissance. Good books build character: promoting religious reading in the 1920s -- Jesus, my pal: reading Bruce Barton's Jesus -- 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 -- 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 -- 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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