Selling God's book

Consuming Books: The Marketing and Consumption of Literature

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 18-31

  Belk, Russell ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b Association for Consumer Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905872237     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203020128     Document Type: Chapter

References (49)

1. American Bible Society (2005) 'American Bible Society Fact Sheet', www.americanbible.org/site/PageServer?Search?query=FACT+SHEET.
2. Anderson, R.J. (1996) 'The Eternity Service', www.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/eternity.html.
3. Apikos, M. (1992) 'Buying the Doughnut to Experience the Hole: A Study of Diversity in "New Age" Marketplace', in F. Rudmin and M. Richins, (eds), Meaning, Measure, and Morality of Materialism, Provo, UT: Association for Consumer Research, 63-76.
4. Beaty, S. (1999) 'To Sell "The Book", a Hip, Multimillion-Dollar Ad Blitz', Wall Street Journal, 1 April, B1 (Eastern Edition).
5. Belk, R. (2000) 'Pimps for Paradise: Paradisal Versions Proffered by Missionaries, Monetary Funds, and Marketers', Marketing Intelligence and Planning, 18 (6/7), 337-44.
6. Belk, R. and Tumbat, G. (2005) 'The Cult of Macintosh', Consumption Markets and Culture 8 (September), 205-18.
7. Belk, R., Wallendorf, M. and Sherry, J. Jr (1989) 'The Sacred and the Profane in Consumer Behavior: Theodicy on the Odyssey', Journal of Consumer Research, 15 (June), 1-38.
8. Blitzer, W. (2003) 'Book Publisher: Amazing Response to Bible Magazine', www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/books/09/01/cnna.etue/.
9. Bogdanovich, P. (1973) Paper Moon, Los Angeles, CA: Paramount Studio.
10. Brown, C. (2001) 'The Culture of Culture Industries: Art, Commerce, and Faith in the Christian Retailing and Entertainment Industry', unpublished doctoral dissertation, Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University, Department of Sociology.
11. Brown, I. (1947) Say the Word, London: J. Cape.
12. Carpenter, M. (2003) Imperial Bibles, Domestic Bodies: Women, Sexuality, and Religion in the Victorian Market, Athens, OH: Ohio University Press.
13. Cusic, D. (1990) The Sound of Light: A History of Gospel Music, Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press.
14. Daniell, D. (2003) The Bible in English, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
15. De Hamel, C. (2001) The Book: A History of the Bible, New York: Phaidon.
16. Dessaur, J., Doebler, P. and Edelman, H. (1987) Christian Book Publishing & Distribution in the United States and Canada, Scranton, PA: Center for Book Research, University of Scranton.
17. Detweiler, C. and Taylor, B. (2003) A Matrix of Meanings: Finding God in Pop Culture, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic.
18. Doss, E. (2004) Elvis Culture: Fans, Faith, and Image, Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.
19. Garrett, L. (1999) 'Betcha Can't Own Just One', Publishers Weekly, 246 (41), 11 October, 33.
20. Griffin, W. (1986) 'Religious Best Sellers & Personal Favorites', Library Journal, 15 October, 27-30.
21. Gutjahr, P. (1999) An American Bible: A History of the Good Book in the United States, 1777-1880, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
22. Haley, E., White, C. and Cunningham, A. (2001) 'Branding Religion: Christian Consumers' Understandings of Christian Products', in D. Stout and J. Buddenbaum (eds), Religion and Popular Culture: Studies on the Interaction of Worldviews, Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 269-88.
23. Harrison, N. (1996) 'Do Bibles Sell Themselves?', Publishers Weekly, 243 (42), 14 October, 51-4.
24. Hills, M. (2002) Fan Cultures, London: Routledge.
25. Kellner, M. (2001) 'Pop Eschatology: Bible Prophecy Sales Boom', Christianity Today, 45 (2), 31 December, 22-6.
26. Larsen, K. (2000), 'Dallas Morning News Explores Boom in Mormon Science Fiction', Mormon News, 25 October.
27. Lyon, D. (2000) Jesus in Disneyland: Religion in Postmodern Times, Cambridge: Polity Press.
28. McDannell, C. (1986) The Christian Home in Victorian America, 1840-1900, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
29. McDannell, C. (1992) 'Parlor Piety: The Home as Sacred Space in Protestant America', in J. Foy and T. Schlereth (eds), American Home Life, 1880-1930: A Social History of Spaces and Services, Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 162-89.
30. McDannell, C. (1995) Material Christianity: Religion and Popular Culture in America, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
31. Maysles, D., Maysles, A. and Zwerin, C. (1968) Salesman, 91-minute film, New York: Maysles Films.
32. Miller, A. (1992) 'He Reaps what He Sows', Newsweek, 120 (17), 26 October, 57.
33. Miller, V. (2004) Consuming Religion: Christian Faith and Practice in a Consumer Culture, New York: Continuum.
34. Moore, L. (1994) Selling God: American Religion in the Marketplace of Culture, New York: Oxford University Press.
35. Muñiz, A. and Schau, H. (2005) 'Religiosity in the Abandoned Apple Newton Brand Community', Journal of Consumer Research, 31 (March), 737-47.
36. O'Guinn, T. and Belk, R. (1989) 'Heaven on Earth: Consumption at Heritage Village, USA', Journal of Consumer Research, 16 (September), 227-38.
37. Price, J. (2000) 'An American Apotheosis: Sports as Popular Religion', in B. Forbes and J. Mahan (eds), Religion and Popular Culture in America, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 165-79.
38. Robertson, E. (1996) Taking the Word to the World: Fifty years of the United Bible Societies, Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson.
39. Robinson, J. (2005) 'Translation Debate: Gender-Neutral TNIV Hits the Streets', www.gender-news.com/article.php?id=62.
40. Roof, W. (1999) Spiritual Marketplace: Babyboomers and the Remaking of American Religion, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
41. Saneh, L. (1989) Translating the Message: The Missionary Impact on Culture, Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books.
42. Sanders, K. (2004) 'Religion as Mainstream Pop Culture: Bible-based Books, Films Now Commercial Successes', MSNBC News, 30 March, http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4632374/.
43. Stearns, P. (1994) American Cool: Construction Twentieth-Century Emotional Style, New York: New York University Press.
44. Winston, K. (2002) 'Call It the Year of the Upgrade', Publishers Weekly, 249 (41), 14 October, 53-7.
45. Winston, K. (2003) 'You Can Judge A (Good) Book By Its Cover', Publishers Weekly, 240 (41), 32-6.
46. Woodard, J. (1995) 'The Gospel According to Hype', Alberta Report/Newsmagazine, 22 (25), 5 June, 32-3.
47. Wosh, P.J. (1994) Spreading the Word: The Bible Business in Nineteenth-Century America, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
48. Wuthnow, R. (1988) The Restructuring of American Religion: Society and Faith since World War II, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
49. Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. (n.d.) 'A History of Bible Translation', www.wycliffe.org/history/BibleTranslation.htm.