{"product_id":"w-t-stead-stewart-j-brown-9780198832539","title":"W. T. Stead: Nonconformist and Newspaper Prophet","description":"W. T. Stead (1849-1912) was a newspaper editor, author, social reformer, advocate for women rights, peace campaigner, spiritualist, and one of the best-known public figures in the late Victorian and Edwardian Britain. \u003cem\u003eW. T. Stead: Nonconformist and Newspaper Prophet\u003c\/em\u003e provides a compelling religious biography of Stead, offering particular attention to his conception of journalism--in an age of growing mass literacy--as a means to communicate religious truth and morality, and his view of the editor's desk as a modern pulpit. Leading scholar, Stewart J. Brown explores how his Nonconformist Conscience and sense of divine calling infused Stead's newspaper crusades-most famously his 'Maiden Tribute' campaign against child prostitution. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe biography also examines Stead's growing interest in spiritualism and the occult, as he searched for the evidence of an afterlife that might draw people in a more secular age back to faith. It discusses his imperialism and his belief in the English-speaking peoples of the British Empire and American Republic as God's new chosen people for the spread of civilisation; and it highlights how his growing understanding of other faiths and cultures--but more especially his moral revulsion over the South African War of 1899-1902--brought him to question those beliefs. Finally, it assesses the influence of religious faith on his campaigns for world peace and the arbitration of international disputes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stewart J. Brown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198832532\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198832539\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/26\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.20w x 0.90d","brand":"Stewart J. Brown","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44119432298751,"sku":"9780198832539","price":56.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a56a37cf-a78b-4499-8662-34b20c96099a.jpg?v=1687409314","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/w-t-stead-stewart-j-brown-9780198832539","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}