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Zusatztext Taken together, these essays offer a useful, informed, multidisciplinary examination of the Bible in the contemporary US...Recommended. Informationen zum Autor Paul C. Gutjahr is Ruth Halls Professor of English at Indiana University. Among his numerous books and articles, he is the author of An American Bible: The History of the Good Book in the United States, 1777-1881 (1999), Charles Hodge: Guardian of American Orthodoxy (2011), and The Book of Mormon: A Biography (2012). Klappentext Early Americans have long been considered "A People of the Book" Because the nickname was coined primarily to invoke close associations between Americans and the Bible, it is easy to overlook the central fact that it was a book-not a geographic location, a monarch, or even a shared language-that has served as a cornerstone in countless investigations into the formation and fragmentation of early American culture. Few books can lay claim to such powers of civilization-altering influence. Among those which can are sacred books, and for Americans principal among such books stands the Bible.This Handbook is designed to address a noticeable void in resources focused on analyzing the Bible in America in various historical moments and in relationship to specific institutions and cultural expressions. It takes seriously the fact that the Bible is both a physical object that has exercised considerable totemic power, as well as a text with a powerful intellectual design that has inspired everything from national religious and educational practices to a wide spectrum of artistic endeavors to our nation's politics and foreign policy.This Handbook brings together a number of established scholars, as well as younger scholars on the rise, to provide a scholarly overview--rich with bibliographic resources--to those interested in the Bible's role in American cultural formation. Zusammenfassung This Handbook brings together a number of established scholars, as well as younger scholars on the rise, to provide a scholarly overview--rich with bibliographic resources--to those interested in the Bible's role in American cultural formation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Contributor Biographies Introduction Paul C. Gutjahr Part I: Bible Production 1. Protestant English-Language Bible Publishing and Translation Paul C. Gutjahr 2. American Children's Bibles Russell W. Dalton 3. Native American Bible Translations Linford D. Fisher 4. Bible Bindings and Formats Seth Perry Part II: Biblical Interpretation and Usage 5. Seventeenth-Century Biblical Interpretation Robert E. Brown 6. Eighteenth-Century Biblical Interpretation Jan Stievermann 7. Nineteenth-Century Biblical Interpretation Mark Noll 8. Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Biblical Interpretation Daniel J. Treier and Craig Hefner 9. The Bible in the Electronic Age John B. Weaver 10. The Bible and Feminist Interpretation Claudia Setzer 11. The Bible and American LGBT Interpretation Teresa J. Hornsby 12. The Bible and African American Culture Abraham Smith 13. The Bible and Creationism Susan L. Trollinger and William Vance Trollinger, Jr. 14. The King James Only Movement Jason A. Hentschel 15. The Bible and the Sermonic Tradition Dawn Coleman Part III: The Bible in American History and Culture 16. The Bible and American Education Suzanne Rosenblith and Patrick Womac 17. The Bible in American Law Daniel L. Dreisbach 18. The Bible in American Politics Daniel A. Morris 19. The Bible and Slavery Emerson Powery 20. The Bible and Sports Jeffrey Scholes 21. The Bible and the Military Ed Waggoner 22. The Bible and the Founding of the Nation Eran Shalev 23. The Bible in the Civil War Paul Harvey 24. The Bible and the Religious Right
