New Books in Religion · New Books Network
Sonia Hazard, "Empire of Print: Evangelical Power in an Age of Mass Media" (Oxford UP, 2025)
January 14, 2026·47 min·4 clips
The American Tract Society published 5.6 billion pages—enough to reach the moon and halfway back to Earth.
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