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Popular Religious Magazines of the United States
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P. Mark Fackler, Charles H. Lippy
Book Code: FPH/
ISBN: 0-313-28533-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-28533-2
616 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 7/30/1995
List Price: $167.95 (UK Sterling Price: £95.00)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • ...will be a useful research tool in academic and religious libraries, whether or not they have runs of the magazines listed here.
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    Library Journal
  • Fasinating reading for students of American religious history, the book belongs in large academic and theological libraries.
    —
    Choice
  • A wall may stand between church and state in American law; however none separates church and society. Anyone who wishes to understand the interplay between religion and society in the United States today and in the past, must become familiar with these influential magazines, some of which boast circulation in the hundreds of thousands. This guide gives them a good starting point.
    —
    Rettig on Reference
  • This volume will be of interest primarily to theological libraries and academic libraries supporting study and research in religion in the U.S. or in journalism. It can also serve as a selection aid for the periodicals that are still being published, such as Christian Century and Christianity Today.
    —Booklist/Reference Books Bulletin
  • ...this is a valuable reference work. Browsing through it is an enjoyable experience. Historians interested in the relationship between media content and popular culture will find that the magazine profiles provide thoughtful insight into the cultural influence of particular magazines as well as a wealth of ideas for future research. Others, looking for specific information about a particular publication will appreciate the detailed history of each magazine, information on content and content changes, and the citations to noteworthy articles and supplementary sources.
    —Journalism History
  • Fackler and lippy have provided a tool that will not only be helpful to theological libraries but also to every library that houses religious periodicals, which should cover most any library. ...this ia an excellent tool.
    —ARBA
Description: Magazines have long been a medium that both shapes and reflects the popular mind of Americans. This work provides profiles of some one hundred popular religious magazines currently or formerly published in the United States. Each sketches the history of a magazine and identifies its major focus, often through noting representative articles. Authors of the essays offer a critical appraisal of each magazine, assessing its contributions to popular religion and its role in shaping how ordinary men and women develop their own religious beliefs and perspectives. The essays will give users an understanding of the particular emphasis of each magazine, while the whole provides an overview of popular religious magazine publishing in the United States. This work focuses directly on those American religious periodicals, past and present, that are directed to a popular, general readership. Since the early Victorian era, periodical literature has served both to shape and to reflect the consciousness of Americans on many subjects, including religion. Hence, the purpose here is to provide a work that will introduce users to the range of popular religious periodical literature that has flourished in the United States. Some are valuable mostly for charting the development of the religious body that has served as the sponsoring agency; others provide insight into popular religious movements of their time. Some seek to promote personal piety and devotion; others serve as vehicles to gain adherents to a particular religious group or perspective. All offer important signals of the forces that have fashioned and continue to fashion the ways ordinary men and women go about the business of creating their personal religious beliefs and values, and, in many cases, how those beliefs make a difference in the public arena.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Profiles of Popular Religious Magazines
  • Appendix: Magazines by Topic
  • Index
LC Card Number: 94-7427
LCC Class: PN4888
Dewey Class: 016.2
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