How Long to Read The Endless Making of Many Books: Bibles and Religious Authority in America, 1780--1850

How Long Does it Take to Read The Endless Making of Many Books: Bibles and Religious Authority in America, 1780--1850?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 34 minutes to read The Endless Making of Many Books: Bibles and Religious Authority in America, 1780--1850 by Seth Perry

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The answer, I argue, lies in the unique variety of bible culture in early-national America and the fact that the period's intense focus on biblical authority was in fact predicated on human mediation of the sacred text. Among Protestants, the ability to convincingly mediate the Bible had always been a primary part of structural and institutionalized ways of legitimating personal religious authority: ministerial training promoted scriptural and theological erudition that validated an individual's religious authority. In early-nineteenth-century America, the ability to mediate the Bible was no longer dependent on formal training or other limited, official, institutionalized channels of knowledge - it was a skill that could be gleaned in the wider world of print bible culture. Printing technology, American disestablishment, and the burgeoning consumer market conspired to change the terms of reader' interaction with printed bibles. The effect was to turn the Bible from an idealized, abstract authority into a usable, personalized tool of authority - a text that could be owned, figuratively and literally. While the rhetoric of the time appealed to the unifying authority of the "Bible alone," Americans' changing relationship to the Bible - and to their own paper-and-ink bibles - helped to inspire dramatic religious diversity.

How long is The Endless Making of Many Books: Bibles and Religious Authority in America, 1780--1850?

The Endless Making of Many Books: Bibles and Religious Authority in America, 1780--1850 by Seth Perry is 208 pages long, and a total of 53,664 words.

This makes it 70% the length of the average book. It also has 66% more words than the average book.

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The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 53 minutes to read The Endless Making of Many Books: Bibles and Religious Authority in America, 1780--1850 aloud.

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