"The aim of the authors is to familiarize readers of denominational publications, both newspapers and magazines, with the ways in which these publications interpret the world in terms of religious commitments. In chapters both descriptive and broadly analytical, they discuss the Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish presses and the secular uses of the religious press. Footnotes. Marty is among the best of the writers on religion in contemporary America, and his findings hold over the decades since their publication here." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 1078)