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The Rise of Liberal Religion - Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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The Rise of Liberal Religion - Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
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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.
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