Book Criticians and Pentecostalists
Why didn’t any editor at the NYT Book Review flag Virginia Heffernan’s use of the term “Pentecostalist” to describe the religion of Sarah Vowell’s youth as an anachronistic variation on “Pentecostal”? Does this oversight shed light on the Book Review‘s appointment of only two books with religion as a main subject to its list of […]
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Why didn’t any editor at the NYT Book Review flag Virginia Heffernan’s use of the term “Pentecostalist” to describe the religion of Sarah Vowell’s youth as an anachronistic variation on “Pentecostal”? Does this oversight shed light on the Book Review‘s appointment of only two books with religion as a main subject to its list of 50 notable nonfiction titles for 2008?