Title Science and salvation : evangelical popular science publishing in Victorian Britain / Aileen Fyfe.

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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.

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Description	1 online resource (xiv, 325 pages) : illustrations, map
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-309) and index.
Contents	The threat of popular science -- Christian knowledge -- Reading fish -- The techniques of evangelical publishing -- The ministry of the press -- Reinterpreting science.
Note	Print version record.
Summary	Aileen Fyfe examines the emergence of a popular science literature in early Victorian Britain, which was laregly stimulated by the Religious Tract Society. Anxious that science and faith were becoming seen as mutually exclusive, the RTS embarked on an ambitious publishing venture.
Subject	Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) -- History -- 19th century.
	Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (OCoLC)fst00566242
	Religious Tract Society.
	Religion and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
	Science publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
	Evangelicalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
	RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
	RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues.
	Evangelicalism. (OCoLC)fst00917002
	Religion and science. (OCoLC)fst01093848
	Science publishing. (OCoLC)fst01108763
	Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
	Natuurwetenschappen.
	Geloof en wetenschap.
	Uitgeven.
	Popularisering.
	Evangelikale Bewegung.
	Naturwissenschaften.
Chronological Term	Geschichte 1840-1860
	1800 - 1899
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Fyfe, Aileen. Science and salvation. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004 0226276473 (DLC) 2003017513 (OCoLC)52895247
ISBN	9780226276465 (electronic bk.)
	0226276465 (electronic bk.)

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