Have you ever heard someone say that they were "spiritual," but not "religious?" Our guest in this episode, Stephen Prothero, offers a "pre-history" of this idea. According to Prothero, the move from traditional/institutional/confessional "religion" to seeker "spirituality" runs through the Eugene Exman, the religion editor at Harper Brothers from 1928-1965. Throughout his long career, Exman published Harry Emerson Fosdick, Howard Thurman, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King Jr., and others. Join us for a discussion of Prothero's recent book God the Bestseller: How One Editor Transformed American Religion a Book at a Time.
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Episode 104: The Roots of American Public Education
Episode 103: Spiritual Socialists
Episode 102: The Ghosts of Colonial Williamsburg
Episode 101: "Exhibiting Evangelicalism"
Episode 100: Christian Historians as Activists?
Episode 99: Historicizing the Search for Roots
Episode 98: Conversions: Spiritual and Political
Episode 97: In Search of George Washington's Hair
Episode 96: Thinking Historically about the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Episode 95: The Lost Promise of American Universities
Episode 94: Gettysburg, 1963
Episode 93: A Story of Faith and Conspiracy in Revolutionary America
Episode 92: Original Sin and the History of American Democracy
Episode 91: Providential History and the Pacific Northwest
Episode 90: "The Gospel According to Charles Lindbergh"
Episode 89: The Heretical John C. Calhoun
Episode 88: History Education on the Great Plains
Episode 87: Religion and the American Revolution
Episode 86: A Conversation with Eric Miller, Editor of Current
Episode 85: Reckoning with Confederate Monuments
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