Scheiding, Oliver and Anja-Maria Bassimir, eds. The Press and the Pulpit: Religious Periodicals and Publishing in Transnational Contexts. Cambridge Scholars. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2017. pp. 204 and Illustrations.
This volume explores the interrelationship of religion and print practices, and sheds new light on the history of religious publishing in a globalizing world and its changing media consumption. Periodicals have recently become of interest to scholars in book history and religious studies, as they try to determine how magazines, journals, newsletters, and newspapers meet the diverse spiritual demands of believers conditioned by an increasingly translocal and pluralistic religious landscape in modern America and beyond. Existing publications in this field have produced new insights into the multilayered nineteenth- and twentieth-century publishing enterprises, as well as the numerous actors behind them, often crossing ethnic, gender, and national boundaries. This volume focuses instead on the socio-economic conditions, institutional organizations, action networks, and communicative environments that shape religious publishing and its medial apperatus in transnational contexts. In doing so, the authors study the material devices, business structures, and cultural networks needed for circulating words and images that nourish specific formations of religious adherence.
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations .................................................................................... vii
Acknowledgments ...................................................................................... ix
Introduction ................................................................................................. 1
Toward a Media History of Religious Periodicals
Oliver Scheiding
APPROACHES
Catholic Print Cultures: German Jesuits and Colonial North America ...... 25
Rainald Becker
Scribal Culture in the Age of Print: Globalizing Religious
Communication in Moravian Pietism ........................................................ 49
Gisela Mettele
People of the Press: Religious Periodicals and the Creation
of American Judaism ................................................................................. 73
Shari Rabin
Print Culture and Religious Identity among African Americans,
1865–1914 ................................................................................................. 91
John Giggie
Marketing the Mainline: The Christian Century and the Business
of Ecumenism .......................................................................................... 107
Elesha J. Coffman
From Connecting Hindus to Uniting Global Hinduism: History
and Guiding Principles of Hinduism Today ............................................. 125
Frank Neubert
Evangelical Magazines in a Digital Age.................................................. 145
Anja-Maria Bassimir
OUTLOOK
Print Culture and the Changing Faces of Religious Communication ...... 171
Candy Gunther Brown
Contributors ............................................................................................. 193
Index ........................................................................................................ 197