The pastor in print
eBook - Genre, audience, and religious change in early modern England, Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
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21.06.2022, Auflage: 1/2022
Beschreibung
The pastor in print explores the phenomenon of early modern pastors who chose to become print authors, addressing ways authorship could enhance, limit or change clerical ministry and ways pastor-authors conceived of their work in parish and print. It identifies strategies through which pastor-authors established authorial identities, targeted different sorts of audiences and strategically selected genre and content as intentional parts of their clerical vocation. The first study to provide a book-length analysis of the phenomenon of early modern pastors writing for print, it uses a case study of prolific pastor-author Richard Bernard to offer a new lens through which to view religious change in this pivotal period. By bringing together questions of print, genre, religio-politics and theology, the book will interest scholars and postgraduate students in history, literature and theological studies, and its readability will appeal to undergraduates and non-specialists.
Autorenportrait
Amy G. Tan is an independent scholar. She received her PhD from Vanderbilt University in 2015.
Inhalt
Introduction: Ministers and media Part I: Religious goals: pastoral approaches to devotion, vocation, and print1 The ubiquity of the devotional2 The making of a pastor-author3 The call to preach and the question of printed sermons Part II: Audiences: imagining and fostering relationships with readers4 If you learn nothing else: catechisms and the question of the fundamentals of the faith5 Different audiences, different messages: explication and implication in anti-Catholic publications6 A bit of parish trouble and a manual on giving: self-representation to insiders and outsiders Part III: Innovation: Adapting content, genre, and format7 A trial, a guide for jurors, and an allegory: one experience inspiring generically divergent publications8 A puritan pastor-author in the 1630s: tailoring the presentation of theological content9 That all the Lords people could prophesy: innovating in the reference genre (and turning against episcopacy?)10 The paradigm of the pastor-author beyond Bernard Index
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