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 83: Celebrity in the Early American Republic
Episode 82: The Fastest Game in the World
Episode 81: God's Law and Order
Episode 80: How Alternative Media Broke Our Democracy
Episode 79: John Foster Dulles and the Cold War Protestant Left
Episode 78: "How a 1630 Sermon Shaped American Exceptionalism"
Episode 77: The Art of Living
Episode 76: Howard Thurman: Theologian, Mystic, Activist
Episode 75: The Jefferson Bible
Episode 74: An Independent Woman in Revolutionary America
Episode 73: Cowboy Evangelicalism
Episode 72: Andrew Jackson, Donald Trump, and the Upending of SHEAR
Episode 71: Writing History for Young Readers
Episode 70: Systemic Racism
Episode 69: Be Like Mike?
Episode 68: The History of the Presidential Cabinet
Episode 67: Exploring the History of Childhood and Play Through 50 Historic Treasures
Episode 66: The Boston Massacre
Episode 65: "What Would Lasch Say?"
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