Making the American Religious Fringe: Exotics, Subversives, and Journalists, 1955-1993

by Sean McCloud

Book Overview

In an examination of religion coverage in Time, Newsweek, Life, The Saturday Evening Post, Ebony, Christianity Today, National Review, and other news and special interest magazines, Sean McCloud combines religious history and social theory to analyze how and why mass-market magazines depicted religions as "mainstream" or "fringe" in the post-World War II United States. McCloud argues that in assuming...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807854964
• ISBN13: 9780807854969
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.5"