Religion and Mass Media [index]

Albaugh, Gaylord P.  History and Annotated Bibliography of American Religious Periodicals and Newspapers, Established from 1730 though 1830.  Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1994.

Alsdurf, Phyllis Elaine. “Christianity Today Magazine and Late Twentieth-Century Evangelicalism.”  PhD dissertation, University of Minnesota, 2004.

Avella, Steven A. “The Catholic Press as an Urban Booster: The Case of Thomas A. Connelly.” U.S. Catholic Historian 25 (Summer 2007): 75–86.

Baumgartner, Appolinaris.  Catholic Journalism: A Study of Its History in the United States. New York: AMS Press, 1967.

Berkman, Dave.  "Long Before Falwell: Early Radio and Religion a Reporter in the National Periodical Press."  Journal of Popular Culture 21 (Spring 1988): 1-11.

Bjerga, Alan. “The Trials of Faith: Discussion of Religion and the Beecher Adultery Scandal, 1870–1880.” American Journalism 18, no. 1 (2001): 73–94.

Brod, Donald F.  "The Scopes Trial: A Look at Press Coverage after 40 Years."  Journalism Quarterly 42 (Spring 1965): 219-226.

Brown, Candy Gunther.  The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789-1880.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Burns, Jeffrey M.  "No Longer Emerging: Ramparts Magazine and the Catholic Laity, 1962-1968."  U.S. Catholic Historian 9 (Summer 1990): 321-333.

Butler, Jon.  Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990.

Cohen, Charles L., and Paul S. Boyer, eds.  Religion and the Culture of Print in Modern America.  Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008.

Conkin, Paul.  The Uneasy Center: Reformed Christianity in Antebellum America.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.

Copeland, David A.  "In All the Papers: Reporting on Religion in Colonial America."  American Journalism 13: 4 (Fall 1996): 390-415.

Clements, William M.  "The Rhetoric of Radio Ministry."  Journal of American Folklore 87 (1974): 318-27.

Davis, Richard A.  "Radio Priest: The Public Career of Father Charles Edward Coughlin."  PhD dissertation, University of North Carolina, 1974.

Delano, Sterling F.  The Harbinger and New England Transcendentalism: A Portrait of Associationism in America.  Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1983.

Delp, Robert W.  “The Southern Press and the Rise of American Spiritualism, 1847-1860.”  Journal of American Culture 7:3 (Fall 1984): 88-95.

Dorgan, Howard.  The Airwaves of Zion: Radio and Religion in Appalachia.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1993.

Dorst, Thomas.  “Sowing the Seeds of Reform:  The Chicago Tract Society, 1889-1910.”  Chicago History 12 (Spring 1983): 36-43.

Erickson, Hal.  Religious Radio and Television in the United States, 1921-1991.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1992.

Evensen, Bruce J.  "The Evangelical Origins of the Muckrakers." American Journalism 6 (1989): 5-.

Evensen, Bruce J. "Expecting a Blessing of Unusual Magnitude: Moody, Mass Media, and Gilded Age Revival." Journalism History 24:1 (Winter 1998): 26-36.

Evensen, Bruce J.  God's Man for the Gilded Age: D.L. Moody and the Rise of Modern Mass Evangelism.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Fackler, Mark, and Charles H. Lippy, eds.  Popular Religious Magazines of the United States.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995.

Fishwick, Marshall W.  “Father Coughlin Time: The Radio and Redemption.”  Journal of Popular Culture 22:2 (Fall 1988): 33-47.

Forbes, Bruce David, and Jeffrey H. Mahan, eds.  Religion and Popular Culture in America.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

Franklin, Cathy Rogers. “James Gillespie Birney, the Revival Spirit, and The Philanthropist.” American Journalism 17, no. 2 (2000): 31–51.

Gaffeild, Gary D.  “To Speak and Act Boldly in the Cause of God: Profession and Practice in American Journalism, 1815-1845.”  Journal of Popular Culture 15:2 (Fall 1981): 13-23.

Gohdes, Clarence.  Periodicals of American Transcendentalism.  Manchester, NH: Ayer Company Publishers, 1976.

Gribble, Richard.  "Family Theater of the Air: The Radio Ministry of Father Patrick Peyton, C.S.C., 1945-1952."  U.S. Catholic Historian 19 (Summer 2001): 51-66.

Gribble, Richard.  "The Other Radio Priest: James Gillis's Opposition to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Foreign Policy." Journal of the Church and State 44 (Summer 2002): 501-519.

Griffith, Jack Garrison, Jr. “Press Coverage of Four Twentieth-Century Evangelical Religious Movements, 1967-­1997.”  PhD dissertation, University of Southern Mississippi, 2004.

Griffith, R. Marie.  “The Religious Encounters of Alfred C. Kinsey.”  Journal of American History 95:2 (September 2008): 349-377.

Gutjahr, Paul C.  An American Bible: A History of the Good Book in America.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.

Hangen, Tona J.  Redeeming the Dial: Radio, Religion, and Popular Culture in America.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

Hendershot, Heather.  “God’s Angriest Man: Carl McIntire, Cold War Fundamentalism, and Right-wing Broadcasting.”  American Quarterly 59:2 (June 2007): 373-396.

Hulsether, Mark.  Building a Protestant Left: Christianity and Crisis Magazine, 1941-1993.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1999.

Kerstetter, Todd.  “Mobocratic Feeling”: Religious Outsiders, the Popular Press, and the American West.”  American Journalism 20:1 (Winter 2003): 57-72.

Lackner, Joseph H. “The American Catholic Tribune: No Other Like It.” U.S. Catholic Historian 25 (Summer 2007): 1–24.

Lochte, Bob.  Christian Radio: The Growth of a Mainstream Broadcasting Force.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006.

Lynch, Christopher Owen.  Selling Catholicism: Bishop Sheen and the Power of Television.  Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 1998.

Marty, Martin E., et al.  The Religious Press in America.  New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1963.

Mathews, Mary Beth Swetnam.   Rethinking Zion: How the Print Media Placed Fundamentalism in the South.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006.

McCloud, Sean.  Making the American Religious Fringe: Exotics, Subversives, and Journalists, 1955-1993.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

McNamara, Patrick. “‘Catholic Journalism with its Sleeves Rolled Up’: Patrick Scanlan and the Brooklyn Tablet.” U.S. Catholic Historian 25 (Summer 2007): 87–107.

Moore, R. Laurence.  “Religion, Secularization, and the Shaping of the Culture Industry in Antebellum America.”  American Quarterly 41:2 (June 1989): 216-242.

Moore, R. Laurence.  Selling God: American Religion in the Marketplace of Culture.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Moran, Jeffrey P.  "Reading Race into the Scopes Trial: African American Elites, Science, and Fundamentalism."  Journal of American History 90:3 (December 2003): 891-911.

Morgan, David.  Protestants and Pictures: Religion, Visual Culture, and the Age of American Mass Production.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Morgan, David.  The Lure of Images: A History of Religion and Visual Media in America.  New York: Routledge, 2007.

Murdock, Kenneth B.  Literature and Theology in Colonial New England.  Reprint edition.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1970.

Nord, David Paul.  "The Authority of Truth: Religion and the John Peter Zenger Case." Journalism Quarterly 62 (1985): 227-35.

Nord, David Paul. "Teleology and News: The Religious Roots of American Journalism, 1630-1730."  Journal of American History, Vol. 77, No. 1 (June 1990), 9-38.

Nord, David Paul.  Faith in Reading: Religious Publishing and the Birth of Mass Media in America.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Norton, Wesley.  “Religious Newspapers in Antebellum Texas.”  Southwestern Historical Quarterly 79 (1975): 145-165.

Olasky, Marvin. “Journalism Historians and Religion.” American Journalism 6, no. 1 (1989): 41–53.

Olasky, Marvin N. “When World Views Collide: Journalists and the Great Monkey Trial.” American Journalism 4 (1987): 133–46.

Portier, William L. “‘Good Friday in December’: World War II in the Editorials of Preservation of the Faith Magazine, 1939–1945.” U.S. Catholic Historian 27 (Spring 2009): 25–44.

Raphael, Mark S. “Americanism as Seen through the Cincinnati Catholic Telegraph.” U.S. Catholic Historian 25 (Summer 2007): 51–73.  

Ripley, J. W.  “Another Look at the Rev. Mr. Charles M. Sheldon’s Christian Daily Newspaper.”  Kansas Historical Quarterly 31 (Spring 1965): 1-40.

Robinson, David M. “‘The New Epoch of Belief’: The Radical and Religious Transformation in Nineteenth-Century New England.”  New England Quarterly 79 (December 2006): 557–577.  

Rodgers, Ron.  “Goodness isn’t News’: The Sheldon Edition and the National Conversation Defining Journalism’s Responsibility to Society.” Journalism History 34:4 (Winter 2009): 204-215.   

Schultze, Quentin J.  American Evangelicals and the Mass Media.  Grand Rapids: Academic Books, 1990.

Shandler, Jeffrey.  Jews, God, and Videotape: Religion and Media in America.  New York: New York University Press, 2009.

Sillars, Leslie Darren. “The Mourning Papers: Death, Religion, and American Newspapers, 1690­2002.”  PhD dissertation, University of Texas, Austin, 2004.

Sloan, Wm. David, ed.  Media and Religion in American History.  Northport, AL: Vision Press, 2000.*

Stephens, Randall J. “‘There is Magic in Print’: The Holiness-Pentecostal Press and the Origins of Southern Pentecostalism.” in Southern Crossroads: Perspectives on Religion and Culture, ed. Walter H. Conser Jr. and Rodger M. Payne, 194–230.  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008.

Stoneman, Timothy H. B. “Preparing the Soil for Global Revival: Station HCJB’s Radio Circle, 1949–59.”  Church History 76 (March 2007): 114–155.

Sutton, Matthew Avery.  Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007.

Sweet, Leonard I., ed.  Communication and Change in American Religious History. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1993. 

Theus, Kathryn T. “From Orthodoxy to Reform: Assimilation and the Jewish-English Press of Mid-Nineteenth Century America.” American Journalism 1, no. 2 (1984): 15–26.

Thompson, Lawrance.  “The Printing and Publishing Activities of the American Tract Society from 1825 to 1850.”  Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America 35 (1941): 81-114.

Underwood, Doug.  From Yahweh to Yahoo: The Religious Roots of the Secular Press.  Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

Warner, Donald.  Radio Priest: Charles Coughlin, Father of Hate Radio. New York: Free Press, 1996.

Wosh, Peter J.  Spreading the Word: The Bible Business in Nineteenth Century America.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994.