TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Erin A.
TI  - What would Jesus read?: popular religious books and everyday life in twentieth-century America 
SN  - 9781469621326 (pbk : alk. paper)
AV  - BR 117 .S55 2015
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Christian literature, American
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Religious literature, American
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Church history
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-390) and index; Part I. The social gospel and the literary marketplace.  What would Jesus do?: reading and social action -- The Dickens of the rural route: Harold Bell Wright and Christian melodrama -- Part II. The 1920s religious renaissance.  Good books build character: promoting religious reading in the 1920s -- Jesus, my pal: reading Bruce Barton's Jesus -- Part III. America's God and Cold War religious reading.  Pealeism and its discontents: Cold War religion, intellectuals, and the middlebrow -- The cult of reassurance: religion, therapy, and containment culture -- Part IV. Reading the apocalypse: Christian bookselling in the 1970s and 1980s.  The Late great planet earth and evangelical cultures of letters in the 1970s and 1980s -- End-times prophecy for dummies: The Late great planet earth -- Part V. The decade of the soul: the 1990s and beyond.  Books for the seeker: liberal religion and the literary marketplace in the 1990s -- The new Gnosticism: gender, heresy, and religious community
ER  -