I have a long-standing interest in the relationship between religious faith and the media in which it is presented: books make faith, and faith makes books. This issue is particularly pressing right now as books yield their primacy to other forms of media, especially electronic.
If there is one part of Christian history that “everybody knows,” it is that printing changed religious consciousness during the Reformation era, by allowing the Bible to be placed in the hands of every individual, young and old, male and female. But this fact is part of a much larger truth about the relationship between the dominant medium of information and the nature of the religious message, both in Christianity, and outside that faith.
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