The Rise of Liberal Religion
Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 19 February 2015
- ISBN 9780190231231
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages290 pages
- Size 231x155x25 mm
- Weight 431 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 17 illus. 0
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Short description:
In The Rise of Liberal Religion Matthew Hedstrom tells the story of how, beginning in the 1920s, American religious leaders joined forces with the publishing industry in an attempt to form a ''spiritual center''--a set of widely accepted religious ideas, practices, and presuppositions that would hold together a fragmenting society, create new markets for books, and maintain the privileged status of these arbiters in American religious discourse.
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Winner of the Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Best First Book Prize of the American Society of Church History
Named a Society for U. S. Intellectual History Notable Title in American Intellectual History
The story of liberal religion in the twentieth century, Matthew S. Hedstrom contends, is a story of cultural ascendency. This may come as a surprise-most scholarship in American religious history, after all, equates the numerical decline of the Protestant mainline with the failure of religious liberalism. Yet a look beyond the pews, into the wider culture, reveals a more complex and fascinating story, one Hedstrom tells in The Rise of Liberal Religion.
Hedstrom attends especially to the critically important yet little-studied arena of religious book culture-particularly the religious middlebrow of mid-century-as the site where religious liberalism was most effectively popularized. By looking at book weeks, book clubs, public libraries, new publishing enterprises, key authors and bestsellers, wartime reading programs, and fan mail, among other sources, Hedstrom is able to provide a rich, on-the-ground account of the men, women, and organizations that drove religious liberalism's cultural rise in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Critically, by the post-WWII period the religious middlebrow had expanded beyond its Protestant roots, using mystical and psychological spirituality as a platform for interreligious exchange. This compelling history of religion and book culture not only shows how reading and book buying were critical twentieth-century religious practices, but also provides a model for thinking about the relationship of religion to consumer culture more broadly. In this way, The Rise of Liberal Religion offers both innovative cultural history and new ways of seeing the imprint of liberal religion in our own times.
This is a useful contribution to the study of American religion in the twentieth century.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Enlarging the Faith: Books and the Marketing of Liberal Religion in a Consumer Culture
Chapter 2: The Religious Book Club: Middlebrow Culture and Liberal Protestant Seeker Spirituality
Chapter 3: Publishing for Seekers: Eugene Exman and the Religious Bestsellers of Harper & Brothers
Chapter 4: Religious Reading Mobilized: The Book Programs of World War II
Chapter 5: Inventing Interfaith: The Wartime Reading Campaign of the National Conference of Christians and Jews
Chapter 6: Religious Reading in the Wake of War: American Spirituality in the 1940s
Conclusion
Archival Collections
Notes
Index
