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    Science and Salvation: Evangelical Popular Science Publishing in Victorian Britain
    Science and Salvation: Evangelical Popular Science Publishing in Victorian Britain
    Science and Salvation: Evangelical Popular Science Publishing in Victorian Britain
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    Science and Salvation: Evangelical Popular Science Publishing in Victorian Britain

    By Aileen Fyfe

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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 era.

    A fascinating study of the tenuous relationship between science and religion in evangelical publishing, Science and Salvation examines questions of practice and faith from a fresh perspective. Rather than highlighting works by expert men of science, Aileen Fyfe instead considers a group of relatively undistinguished authors who used thinly veiled Christian rhetoric to educate first, but to convert as well. This important volume is destined to become essential reading for historians of science, religion, and publishing alike.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
    Release dateApr 15, 2011
    ISBN9780226276465
    Science and Salvation: Evangelical Popular Science Publishing in Victorian Britain
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    Aileen Fyfe

    Aileen Fyfe is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews, UK. She is a social and cultural historian of science and technology, who researches the publication and popularisation of the sciences. She is the author many articles and books, including Science and Salvation (2004), Steam-Powered Knowledge (2012), and the briefing paper Untangling Academic Publishing (2017). She is currently writing about the history of peer review and research evaluation, and the economic models underlying journal publishing.

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