I am working on a book review and as I work on the book review doing research on a final paper for history of media.

The paper is a contrast and compare thing. I'm going to look at Bible and tract societies in the antebellum United States and compare their work and the work of their colporteurs, peddlars who distributed religious tracts, with present -day online communities of faith in the USA.

The basic idea of the Bible societies was to have something called a general supply: a bible supplied "without note or comment" to every household in America. The key here is without note or comment. This distribution scheme was non-denominational Christianity, the Bible was supposed to speak for itself, in order to hasten the arrival of millenial kingdom of god in America, but not for any sectarian conflicts, political concerns, or individualist theological ideas.