Word in the World
Candy Gunther Brown
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Description for Word in the World
Paperback. The recent success of the Left Behind book series, which sold over 50 million books, points to an enormous readership of evangelical Christian literature that has not gone unnoticed by the mainstream publishing world. The author explores the roots of this conglomeration of writers, publishers, and readers. Num Pages: 352 pages, 51 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBF; HRCC2; HRCX7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 503.
The recent success of the Left Behind book series, which sold over 50 million books, points to an enormous readership of evangelical Christian literature that has not gone unnoticed by the mainstream publishing world. But this is not a recent phenomenon; the evangelical publishing community has been growing for more than two hundred years. Candy Gunther Brown explores the roots of this far-flung conglomeration of writers, publishers, and readers, from the founding of the Methodist Book Concern in 1789 to the 1880 publication of the runaway best-seller Ben-Hur. Brown shows how this distinct print community used the Word of the ... Read more
The recent success of the Left Behind book series, which sold over 50 million books, points to an enormous readership of evangelical Christian literature that has not gone unnoticed by the mainstream publishing world. But this is not a recent phenomenon; the evangelical publishing community has been growing for more than two hundred years. Candy Gunther Brown explores the roots of this far-flung conglomeration of writers, publishers, and readers, from the founding of the Methodist Book Concern in 1789 to the 1880 publication of the runaway best-seller Ben-Hur. Brown shows how this distinct print community used the Word of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807855119
SKU
V9780807855119
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99-15
About Candy Gunther Brown
Candy Gunther Brown is associate professor of religious studies at Indiana University.
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