| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.1

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Book Review

Making the American Religious Fringe: Exotics, Subversives, and Journalists, 1955–1993. By Sean McCloud. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xii, 269 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2829-7. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-5496-4.)

In recent years American journalists have paid increasing attention to religion. Paralleling this trend has been a heightened focus on religion among media scholars. The best-known studies have looked at religion coverage in general, discovering Unsecular Media (the title of a 1995 book by Mark Silk) that contradict the godless image of journalists propagated by conservative press critics. Missing in the flurry of recent books on religion and the media is a sustained look at how journalists have covered the margins of American religion. A welcome addition to the literature on journalism and religion, Sean McCloud's Making the American Religious Fringe provides just such an analysis, showing how reporters have helped to create the boundaries between the religious center and the religious periphery in the United States.

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