Morality and the Mail in Nineteenth-Century America

Author： Fuller   Wayne E.  

Publisher： University of Illinois Press‎

Publication year： 2003

E-ISBN: 9780252091353

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780252028120

Subject： B9 Religion

Keyword： 宗教

Language： ENG

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This volume explores the evolution of postal innovations that sparked a communication revolution in nineteenth-century America. Fuller examines how evangelical Protestants, the nations dominant religious group, struggled against those transformations in American society that they believed threatened to paganize the Christian nation they were determined to save. Drawing on House and Senate documents, postmasters general reports, and the Congressional Record, as well as sermons, speeches, and articles from numerous religious and secular periodicals, Fuller illuminates the problems the changed postal system posed for evangelicals.

Chapter

Cover

Title Page

Contents

Preface

1. Mail on the Sabbath

2. Sabbath Mail and the Separation ofChurch and State

3. Changing the Sabbath to a Day of Rest

4. Sunday Newspapers and the Day of Rest

5. The Post Office, Protestants,and Pornography in the Gilded Age

6. The Attack upon Impure Literature in the Mail

7. The Post Office, Postage,and the Paperback Controversy

8. For the Preservation of the American Family

9. The Postal Power, Protestants, and the Lottery

10. Immoral Mail and the Enforcement ofEvangelical Morality

Epilogue

Index

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