A divinity for all persuasions : popular print and early American religious life
Tomlin, T. JAuthor
This text uncovers the prevailing religious sensibility at the center of early America's most popular form of print: the almanac. Employing a wealth of archival material, T.J. Tomlin reveals the pan-Protestant sensibility distributed through the almanacs' pages between 1730 and 1820, finding that almanacs played an unparalleled role in reinforcing British North America's 'shared religious culture.'
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This text uncovers the prevailing religious sensibility at the center of early America's most popular form of print: the almanac. Employing a wealth of archival material, T.J. Tomlin reveals the pan-Protestant sensibility distributed through the almanacs' pages between 1730 and 1820, finding that almanacs played an unparalleled role in reinforcing British North America's 'shared religious culture.'
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 3, 2014).
Almanacs, American
Protestantism
General
Almanacs, Directories & Yearbooks - General