Evangelical Fiction Helped Shape a Culture of Faith — Along with Suspicion, Fear, and Resentment
…nials; and self-help books about marriage, family and child-rearing. These new “evangelical” publishers became successful in the 1950s, working with new evangelical bookstores that enjoyed huge growth since the 1970s—but which, Silliman tells us at the end of his book, are largely disappearing. Evangelical bookstores, for Silliman, constitute a “discourse community” alongside other “hubs of evangelical conversation” such as magazines, conferences,…
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