Science and salvation : evangelical popular science publishing in Victorian Britain / Aileen Fyfe

By: Fyfe, AileenContributor(s): Fyfe, AileenMaterial type: TextTextPublisher number: :Brijwasi Book Distributors | :H-87, Lalita Park laxmi Nagar Delhi 110092Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004Description: xiv, 325 pages 24cmISBN: 9780226276489Subject(s): Religion | Social & ecclesiastical theology | Social theology and interreligious relations and attitudes | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) | Science publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century | Evangelicalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century | Religion -- Christian Life -- Social Issues | Science publishing | Popularisering | Religion -- Christianity -- General | Religious Tract Society | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain)DDC classification: 261.55094 FYF
Contents:
The threat of popular science -- Christian knowledge -- Reading fish -- The techniques of evangelical publishing -- The ministry of the press -- Reinterpreting science.
Summary: Aileen Fyfe examines the emergence of a popular science literature in early Victorian Britain, which was laregly stimulated by the Religious Tract Society. Anxious that science & faith were becoming seen as mutually exclusive, the RTS embarked on an ambitious publishing venture
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The threat of popular science --
Christian knowledge --
Reading fish --
The techniques of evangelical publishing --
The ministry of the press --
Reinterpreting science.

Aileen Fyfe examines the emergence of a popular science literature in early Victorian Britain, which was laregly stimulated by the Religious Tract Society. Anxious that science & faith were becoming seen as mutually exclusive, the RTS embarked on an ambitious publishing venture

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