The Religious Press in America by Martin E. Marty, John G. Deedy, Jr., David Wolf Silverman, Robert Lekachman / Greenwood Press Publishers / A Sustained analysis of the religious press in America 

Hardcover 1972

ISBN-10: 0837165008

• ISBN-13: 978-0837165004 / 9780837165004
  
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces

PAGES: 184

PUBLISHER: Greenwood Press

CONDITION OF THE BOOK IS USED LIKE NEW!

English Summary:

The four essays that make up this book were written by a Lutheran minister, a Roman Catholic layman, a Conservative rabbi, and a Barnard College professor of economics, Robert Lekachman, who appears here in the role of kindly outsider. The first three of these writers survey the history of religious journalism within their own groups, judge past and current performance, and end by gazing a little into the future and exhorting their co-religionists to think more in the direction of bringing theology to bear on life in the Republic in these inclement times. In the criticism of current practices and the exhortation to think in larger terms, Professor Lekachman cordially joins. If the book says little that will be very new to those who read the religious press at all, it is nonetheless a useful and, in a low-keyed way, intelligent survey of its subject, and has about it an agreeable air of candor. Nobody in the book seems to have much to crow about. Indeed, there is a sentence by Lord Byron that might have served as epigraph to the whole enterprise: “But God help us all, it is at present a sad jar of atoms.”

About the Authors:

Martin Emil Marty (born February 5, 1928) is an American Lutheran religious scholar who has written extensively on religion in the United States.

Marty has received numerous honors, including the National Humanities Medal, the Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the University of Chicago Alumni Medal, the Distinguished Service Medal of the Association of Theological Schools, the Order of Lincoln Medallion (Illinois’ top honor), and 80 honorary doctorates. Named in his honor, the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion is the University of Chicago Divinity School's institute for interdisciplinary research in all fields of the academic study of religion. He is an elected member of the American Antiquarian Society and of the American Philosophical Society and is the Mohandas M. K. Gandhi Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences.

Marty was inducted as a Laureate of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois and awarded the Order of Lincoln (the State’s highest honor) by the Governor of Illinois in 1998 in the area of Religion.

John G. Deedy, Jr., editor of the Pittsburgh Catholic.

David W. Silverman, Rabbi of the Conservative Synagogue of Riverdale, New York

Robert Lekachman, an economist by trade but also a member of the study commission on Religion and Free Society of the Fund for the Republic and a writer long interested in the workings of religion in a pluralistic society.