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  • 30 - Religious publishing

  • from I - RELIGIOUS BOOKS
  • Edited by Michael F. Suarez, SJ, University of Virginia, Michael L. Turner, Bodleian Library, Oxford
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain
    Published online:
    28 September 2010
    Print publication:
    29 October 2009, pp 577-600

  • Summary

    Religious books and pamphlets of all kinds indisputably constituted the largest part of the publishing market in the period 1695 to 1830, just as they had since the invention of printing. They fell into three main categories, namely doctrinal books, controversial books and practical books. This chapter concentrates on aspects of the third and largest category, which contained a huge range of books of different size, length and price aimed at different audiences. The writers of such books were mostly clergy or ministers of different denominations, though there were some lay authors; their readers, depending on the kind of book and how it was distributed, were the clergy and large numbers of the laity. Divinity students, clergy and ministers of different denominations were in urgent need of guides to the mass of religious publications that poured from the presses and of commentaries to help them interpret the Bible.