Science and Salvation : Evangelical Popular Science Publishing in Victorian Britain.
Threatened by the proliferation of cheap, mass-produced publications, the Religious Tract Society issued a series of publications on popular science during the 1840s. The books were intended to counter the developing notion that science and faith were mutually exclusive, and the Society's autho...
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2011.
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Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; I. The Threat of Popular Science; II. Christian Knowledge; III. Reading Fish; IV. The Techniques of Evangelical Publishing; V. The Ministry of the Press; VI. Reinterpreting Science; Postscript; Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of RTS Writers and Staff; Appendix B: Volumes of the "Monthly Series"; References; Index.