{"product_id":"from-yahweh-to-yahoo-doug-underwood-9780252075711","title":"From Yahweh to Yahoo!: The Religious Roots of the Secular Press","description":"\u003cp\u003ePresenting religion as journalism's silent partner, \u003ci\u003eFrom Yahweh to Yahoo!\u003c\/i\u003eprovides a fresh and surprising view of the religious impulses at work in contemporary newsrooms. Focusing on how the history of religion in the United States entwines with the growth of the media, Doug Underwood argues that American journalists draw from the nation's moral and religious heritage and operate, in important ways, as personifications of the old religious virtues. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnderwood traces religion's influence on mass communication from the biblical prophets to the Protestant Reformation, from the muckraker and Social Gospel campaigns of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to the modern age of mass media. While forces have pushed journalists away from identifying themselves with religion, they still approach such secular topics as science, technology, and psychology in reverential ways. Underwood thoughtful analysis covers the press's formulaic coverage of spiritual experience, its failure to cover new and non-Christian religions in America, and the complicity of the mainstream media in launching the religious broadcasting movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Doug Underwood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0252075714\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252075711\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Illinois Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.22h x 6.07w x 0.86d","brand":"Doug Underwood","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086448963839,"sku":"9780252075711","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4ff06958-bc6d-415d-9cdb-ac7b41aa4099.jpg?v=1769094734","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/from-yahweh-to-yahoo-doug-underwood-9780252075711","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}