Mormon Studies Review
Keywords
Bible, America, culture, Perry, scholarship
Abstract
The Bible in America and American bibles have generated substantial scholarly interest. In writing about early American bible culture, Seth Perry has stepped onto well-trodden ground. The field has been cleared and ploughed by many important studies, including Paul Gutjahr’s American Bible and Book of Mormon, David Nord’s Faith in Reading, Candy Brown’s Word in the World, John Fea’s Bible Cause, Mark Noll’s In the Beginning Was the Word, and Lincoln Mullen’s America’s Public Bible.1 Perry builds on this scholarship (citing all but Brown in the bibliography) and contributes novel insights, but Bible Culture’s findings are not radically disruptive. Readers familiar with earlier studies will recognize similar evidence and arguments, newly bolstered by fresh examples and complementary theoretical framing.
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Brown, Candy Guther
(2020)
"Review: Seth Perry. Bible Culture and Authority in the Early United States. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018.,"
Mormon Studies Review: Vol. 7:
No.
1, Article 22.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/msr2/vol7/iss1/22