From Yahweh to Yahoo!: The Religious Roots of the Secular Press

by Doug Underwood

Book Overview

Presenting religion as journalism's silent partner, From Yahweh to Yahoo!provides a fresh and surprising view of the religious impulses at work in contemporary newsrooms. Focusing on how the history of religion in the United States entwines with the growth of the media, Doug Underwood argues that American journalists draw from the nation's moral and religious heritage and operate, in important ways, as personifications of the old religious...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252075714
• ISBN13: 9780252075711
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Fresh look at complicated issue

I found this book to be a very useful and fresh approach to the complicated relationship between religion and the media. My own research efforts have discovered similar hints, that the media may indeed have a kind of liberal Christian ethic, which makes them oppose right-wing Christianity. This book gives a solid historical analysis, and is written in a very engaging style--I highly recommend it.