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Evangelicalism in modern Britain : a history from the 1730s to the 1980s
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ISBN: 0049410199 0049410180 9780049410190 9780049410183 Year: 1992 Publisher: London HarperCollins Academic

Science and salvation : evangelical popular science publishing in Victorian Britain
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ISBN: 0226276481 0226276473 Year: 2004 Publisher: Chicago London The University of Chicago Press

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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 er

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Evangelicalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. --- Evangelicalism - Great Britain - History - 19th century. --- Religion and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. --- Religion and science - Great Britain - History - 19th century. --- Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) -- History -- 19th century. --- Science publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. --- Science publishing - Great Britain - History - 19th century. --- Religion and science --- Science publishing --- Evangelicalism --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Religion - General --- History --- Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) --- 655.4 <41> --- 050 <09> <41> --- 094:05 --- 215 --- Uitgeverij. Boekhandel--algemeen--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Tijdschriften. Periodieken. Serials--(werken over)--Geschiedenis van ...--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--Tijdschriften --- Godsdienst en wetenschap --- 050 <09> <41> Tijdschriften. Periodieken. Serials--(werken over)--Geschiedenis van ...--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Science --- Scientific literature --- Publishers and publishing --- Christianity and science --- Geology --- Geology and religion --- Science and religion --- Evangelical religion --- Protestantism, Evangelical --- Evangelical Revival --- Fundamentalism --- Pietism --- Protestantism --- Publishing --- Religious aspects --- RTS --- R.T.S. --- Rondon Seikyō Shorui Kaisha --- United Society for Christian Literature

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