Download or read book The First Report of the Bible Society Established at Philadelphia written by Bible Society (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An American Bible written by Paul C. Gutjahr and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An American Bible is an extremely compelling piece of cultural history that succeeds in making rich rather than schematic sense of the major dramas that lay behind the production of over 1,700 different American editions of the Bible in the century after the American Revolution. Gutjahr's book is especially powerful in demonstrating how nineteenth-century efforts to purge the Bible of textual and translational impurities in search of an 'authentic' text led ironically to the emergence of entirely new gospels like the Book of Mormon and the massive fictionalized literature dealing with the life of Christ." --Jay Fliegelman, Stanford University During the first three-quarters of the nineteenth century, American publishing experienced unprecedented, exponential growth. An emerging market economy, widespread religious revival, educational reforms, and innovations in print technology worked together to create a culture increasingly formed and framed by the power of print. At the center of this new culture was the Bible, the book that has been called "the best seller" in American publishing history. Yet it is important to realize that the Bible in America was not a simple, uniform entity. First printed in the United States during the American Revolution, the Bible underwent many revisions, translations, and changes in format as different editors and publishers appropriated it to meet a wide range of changing ideological and economic demands. This book examines how many different constituencies (both secular and religious) fought to keep the Bible the preeminent text in the United States as the country's print marketplace experienced explosive growth. The author shows how these heated battles had profound consequences for many American cultural practices and forms of printed material. By exploring how publishers, clergymen, politicians, educators, and lay persons met the threat that new printed material posed to the dominance of the Bible by changing both its form and its contents, the author reveals the causes and consequences of mutating God's supposedly immutable Word.
Download or read book The Bible Cause written by John Fea and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Endorsed in its time by Francis Scott Key, John Jay, and Theodore Roosevelt, the American Bible Society (ABS) is a seminal institution for American Protestants. The group was founded in 1816 with the goal of distributing free copies of the Bible in local languages throughout the world. Today, the ABS is a Christian ministry based in Philadelphia with a $300 million endowment and a mission to engage 100 million Americans with the Bible by 2025. In The Bible Cause, noted historian of American religion John Fea demonstrates how the ABS's primary mission - to place the Bible in the hands of as many people as possible - has caused the history of the organization to intersect at nearly every point with the history of the United States. For the last two hundred years, the ABS has steadily increased its influence both at home and abroad, working with all Christian denominations in the US and internationally, aligning itself whenever possible with the gatekeepers of American religious culture. Over the years ABS Bibles could be found in hotel rooms, bookstores, and airports; on steam boats, college and university campuses; the Internet; and even behind the Iron Curtain. Its agents, Bibles in hand, could be found on the front lines of every American military conflict from the Mexican-American War to the Iraq War. However and wherever the United States developed, the ABS was there. Throughout the last two centuries ABS has never wavered in its mission, and its commitment to be the guardian of a Christian civilization has been proven many times over.
Download or read book Faith in Reading written by David Paul Nord and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-19 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twenty-first century, mass media corporations are often seen as profit-hungry money machines. It was a different world in the early days of mass communication in America. Faith in Reading tells the remarkable story of the noncommercial religious origins of our modern media culture. In the early nineteenth century, a few visionary entrepreneurs decided the time was right to reach everyone in America through the medium of print. Though they were modern businessmen, their publishing enterprises were not commercial businesses but nonprofit societies committed to the publication of traditional religious texts. Drawing on organizational reports and archival sources, David Paul Nord shows how the managers of Bible and religious tract societies made themselves into large-scale manufacturers and distributors of print. These organizations believed it was possible to place the same printed message into the hands of every man, woman, and child in America. Employing modern printing technologies and business methods, they were remarkably successful, churning out millions of Bibles, tracts, religious books, and periodicals. They mounted massive campaigns to make books cheap and plentiful by turning them into modern, mass-produced consumer goods. Nord demonstrates how religious publishers learned to work against the flow of ordinary commerce. They believed that reading was too important to be left to the "market revolution," so they turned the market on its head, seeking to deliver their product to everyone, regardless of ability or even desire to buy. Wedding modern technology and national organization to a traditional faith in reading, these publishing societies imagined and then invented mass media in America.
Download or read book Report of the British and Foreign Bible Society with Extracts of Correspondence written by British and Foreign Bible Society and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the British and Foreign Bible Society from Its Institution in 1804 to the Close of Its Jubilee in 1854 Compiled by the Rev George Browne written by British and Foreign Bible Society and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the Origin and First Ten Years of the British and Foreign Bible Society written by John Owen and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reports of the British and Foreign Bible Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The history of the British and foreign Bible society from 1804 to 1854 written by George Browne and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the British and Foreign Bible Society written by George Browne and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reports of the British and Foreign Bible Society with Extracts of Correspondence etc For the Years 1805 15 written by [Anonymus AC10243176] and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book God and Mammon written by Mark A. Noll and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays offers a close look at the connections between American Protestants and money in the Antebellum period. They provide essential background to an issue that continues to generate controversy in the Protestant community today.
Download or read book Reports of the British and Foreign Bible Society with Extracts of Correspondence written by and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the American Bible Society written by American Bible Society and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Together with a list of auxiliary and cooperating societies, their officers, and other data.
Download or read book Reports of the British and Foreign Bible Society written by British and Foreign Bible Society and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Analysis of the System of the Bible Society written by Charles Stokes Dudley and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Analysis of the System of the Bible Society Throughout Its Various Parts written by Charles Stokes Dudley and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
