From Yahweh to Yahoo!
Subtitle: The Religious Roots of the Secular Press
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780252027062
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Religion & Beliefs; Press And Society; Language Arts & Disciplines; Sociology; Language; Journalism; Media Studies - Print Media; Current Events / Mass Media; Sociology Of Religion; History; Religion and the press; United States
First sentence: When the Protestant-dominated Long Parliament in England faced an upsurge in polemical religious literature in 1643, it did the accustomed thing: it passed an ordinance that attempted to control the content of printed material through licensing and censorship laws.