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

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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fyfe, Aileen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a List of Illustrations; List of 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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