The Pastor in Print

Genre, Audience, and Religious Change in Early Modern England

Amy G. Tan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2022
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-5220-6 (ISBN)

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The pastor in print is the first book-length analysis of the phenomenon of early modern pastors who intentionally pursued print authorship. With careful attention to audience, content, genre, and timing of publications, pastor-authors sought to complement parish work and achieve diverse religious goals through print. -- .

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. -- .

Amy G. Tan is an independent scholar. She received her PhD from Vanderbilt University in 2015. -- .

Introduction: Ministers and media

Part I: Religious goals: pastoral approaches to devotion, vocation, and print
1 The ubiquity of ‘the devotional’
2 The making of a pastor-author
3 The call to preach and the question of printed sermons

Part II: Audiences: imagining and fostering relationships with readers
4 If you learn nothing else: catechisms and the question of the fundamentals of the faith
5 Different audiences, different messages: explication and implication in anti-Catholic publications
6 A bit of parish trouble and a manual on giving: self-representation to insiders and outsiders

Part III: Innovation: Adapting content, genre, and format
7 A trial, a guide for jurors, and an allegory: one experience inspiring generically divergent publications
8 A puritan pastor-author in the 1630s: tailoring the presentation of theological content
9 ‘That all the Lord’s people could prophesy’: innovating in the reference genre (and turning against episcopacy?)
10 The paradigm of the ‘pastor-author’ beyond Bernard

Index -- .

Erscheinungsdatum	24.05.2022
Reihe/Serie	Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
Zusatzinfo	3 black & white illustrations
Verlagsort	Manchester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	581 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-5261-5220-7 / 1526152207
ISBN-13	978-1-5261-5220-6 / 9781526152206
Zustand	Neuware