Introduction : toward a media history of religious periodicals

The so-called Gutenberg Galaxy was a fairly mixed publicity space in which manuscript and print cultures - or, since the 1970s, electronic media cultures - do not replace each other but rather intersect, expand their reach, and intensify their productive capacities. This volume focuses on the global flow of religious publishing practiced in transnational environments from the early Modern period to the present. The contributions in this volume examine the roles relligious publishing plays in building and maintaining communities and identities, shaping their surroundings and being shaped by them