The New England Soul: Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England

Pettit, Norman; Stout, Harry S.

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“…Indeed, publishing was not the only available mode of public engagement: speaking, reading, and listening were all readily available means of engaging publicly. Even in the case of Protestant sermons which comprised an impressive proportion of printed objects in early America they were often preached orally first (Gustafson, 2000; Stout, 1986), with snippets inscribed onto notebooks and sometimes circulated in manuscript form (Neuman, 2013), and only after having had a public life outside the sermon event might it even be considered for print publication, with only a few of them ever reaching the printing press (Selement, 1980). On this front, the multimedia lives of speeches and texts in early America troubled the centrality of print as the primary form of early American publicity (King, 2020).…”

Section: Defining the Literary Public Spherementioning

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Materializing the public sphere in American religious history

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2024

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This article reviews scholarship in American religious history around the concept of the public sphere. Considering that the public sphere was readily aligned with the productions of the printing press, ‘materializing’ surveys works that have relied upon, expanded, and critiqued print's centraility to early American religious public culture. Recent attention to materiality has also encouraged greater attention to contingencies, locality of circulation, and specificity of audiences in our studies of public texts that would trouble technological determinisms that readily aligned Protestant ascendance, secular modernity, and print publishing with democratization. The essay concludes with new questions regarding print culture, calls for greater multimedia approaches to our study of media objects, and posits the importance of critically evaluating what we count as public or private in our historical narratives about religious communities.

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Section: Defining the Literary Public Spherementioning

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Materializing the public sphere in American religious history

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2024

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The New England Soul: Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England

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Materializing the public sphere in American religious history

Materializing the public sphere in American religious history

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