| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.1

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Tona J. Hangen. Redeeming the Dial: Radio, Religion, and Popular Culture in America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2002. Pp. ix, 220. Cloth $39.95, paper $18.95.
Tona J. Hangen explores conservative Protestants' use of radio during that medium's golden age and focuses on three exemplary practitioners: Paul Rader, Aimee Semple McPherson, and Charles Fuller. Carl McIntire, an often overlooked but important figure in religious radio and right-wing politics, also garners attention. In her most original chapter, Hangen examines the tensions between conservative and liberal Protestants over the regulation of radio in the 1940s and the emergence of the National Religious Broadcasters. The approach is interdisciplinary, but the popular culture perspective prevails. Hangen makes good use of listeners' correspondence.	1
Revivalist radio is an important subject. From the 1920s to the 1950s American households with radios jumped from about five percent to about ninety-five percent. In 1948, over 1,600 fundamentalist radio programs aired each week. Hangen concludes that by looking closely at this dimension of evangelicalism, one can better understand the resilience of that movement in America, especially its access to cultural authority, and also how revivalists helped to shape radio itself, one element of the American cultural mosaic. Religious radio also clarifies how America resisted the western trend of modernization leading to secularization. Sacred and secular programing coexisted in the same medium.	. . .

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