Science and Salvation : Evangelical Popular Science Publishing in Victorian Britain /

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Threatened by the proliferation of cheap, mass-produced publications, the Religious Tract Society issued a series of publications on popular science during the 1840s. The books were intended to counter the developing notion that science and faith were mutually exclusive, and the Society's autho...

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Autor principal: Fyfe, Aileen (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2011]
Temas:
RELIGION / General.
popular science, scientific history, historical change, victorian britain, british, religious tract society, publishing, publishers, evangelical, evangelicalism, christianity, christians, 19th century, faith, religion, cultural studies, practice, rhetoric, ministry, press, monthly series, communication, knowledge, education, conversion.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • I. The Threat of Popular Science
  • II. Christian Knowledge
  • III. Reading Fish
  • IV. The Techniques of Evangelical Publishing
  • V. The Ministry of the Press
  • VI. Reinterpreting Science
  • Postscript
  • Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of RTS Writers and Staff
  • Appendix B: Volumes of the "Monthly Series"
  • References
  • Index

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