{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Ill Literacy: Books with Benson","title":"America's Book: The Rise and Decline of a Bible Civilization (Guest: Mark A. Noll)","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/cecf5a3b\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4473,"description":"Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Mark A. Noll, Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame, to discuss his new book, America's Book: The Rise and Decline of a Bible Civilization, 1794-1911. They chat about how the Bible decisively shaped American national history even as that history influenced the use of Scripture, and how a strongly Protestant Bible civilization was fractured by debates over slavery, contested by growing numbers of non-Protestants, and torn apart by the Civil War. They also talk about how the more religiously plural period from Reconstruction to the early 20th Century saw Scripture become a much more fragmented, though still significant, force in American culture.\r\n\r\nGet the book here:  https://global.oup.com/academic/product/americas-book-9780197623466?q=america%27s%20book&lang=en&cc=us\r\n\r\nShow Notes:\r\n\r\nWall Street Journal: D.G. Hart – “‘America’s Book’ Review: The Word Out of Season”\r\nhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-book-review-the-word-out-of-season-11651009649","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/kNYd03PWLsrhW1fapjuL69XCID7ipQAh8UAmtQYE_W0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzM2NzM4LzE2Njk4/MzU0NzktYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}