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The Wilderness, the Nation, and the Electronic Era: American Christianity and Religious Communication 1620-2000: An Annotated Bibliography contains over 2,400 annotations of books, book chapters, essays, periodical articles, and selected dissertations dealing with the various means and technologies of Christian communication used by clergy, churches, denominations, benevolent associations, printers, booksellers, publishing houses, and individuals and movements in their efforts to disseminate news, knowledge, and information about religious beliefs and life in the United States from colonial times to the present. Providing access to the critical and interpretive literature about religious communication is significant and plays a central role in the recent trend in American historiography toward cultural history, particularly as it relates to numerous collateral disciplines: sociology, anthropology, education, speech, music, literary studies, art history, and technology. The book documents communication shifts, from oral history to print to electronic and visual media, and their adaptive uses in communication networks developed over the nation's history. This reference brings bibliographic control to a large and diverse literature not previously identified or indexed.
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Chris Lyman
reviewed Wilderness, the Nation, and the Electronic Era: American Christianity and Religious Communication, 1620-2000 on August 27, 2018
Wilderness, the Nation, and the Electronic Era: American Christianity and Religious Communication, 1620-2000
It's just barely adequate in size and scope for the enormous and complex topic it sets out to address. The author seems to have only a few overriding concerns in the writing of such a work (maybe he broadens his sphere in his other projects?) He is mainly concerned with white culture vs black culture. Is that the only way to approach American history?
Example: to treat both the history of American magazine publishing and the history of American feminism (and doing justice to neither subject matter) the author devotes a chapter to the career of Fanny Fern, who first revolutionized women's advice columns found in periodicals. Yawn.
There is a good chapter on the Astor Place Riots --but nothing you can't get from the internet. Similarly, the chapter on Billie Holliday. Equally so, the chapters on Charlie Chaplin and Coney Island.
Is all this material not covered better and deeper in other textbooks? Why waste a whole chapter on Archie Bunker, the Jeffersons, and Carl Reiner? Does that really (pun alert) 'give us a good picture' of the television age?
Barely redeeming all this is a chapter devoted to the great Bert Williams of the old vaudeville circuit. Thank goodness for small favors!
This is a decent--if bland-- 'overview' type of textbook helpful in skimming general material such as timelines, births/deaths, general influences of what-on-which. Not good for fine detail and no really bold assertions.
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