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 authors employed a full repertoire of evangelical techniques--low prices, simple language, carefully structured narratives--to convert their readers. The application of such techniques to popular science resulted in one of the most widely available sources of information on the sciences in the Victorian era. A fascinating study of the tenuous relationship between science and religion in evangelical publishing, Science and Salvation examines questions of practice and faith from a fresh perspective. Rather than highlighting works by expert men of science, Aileen Fyfe instead considers a group of relatively undistinguished authors who used thinly veiled Christian rhetoric to educate first, but to convert as well
History
xiv, 325 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
9780226276472, 9780226276489, 0226276473, 0226276481
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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
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