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Article: Faith in Reading: Religious Publishing and the Birth of Mass Media in America.(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- March 22, 2006
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Faith in Reading: Religious Publishing and the Birth of Mass Media in America. By David Paul Nord. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. viii, 212. $35.00.)
The title of this carefully researched and well-written little volume is to the point. The story offered here concerns the traditional Protestant love affair with the Word, the Word of God specifically found in the Bible. Justly celebrated for their attendance to God's Word, the several generations of seventeenth-century New Englanders grounded their faith most emphatically in the efficacy of the Word, a Word that could be printed, read, and pondered, and which could be ultimately life altering. ...