When the Medium Was the Mission av Jenna Supp-Montgomerie

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<p><i><b>**FINALIST, 2022 PROSE Award in Theology & Religious Studies**</b></i><br/><b>An innovative exploration of religion''s influence on communication networks</b><br/>When Samuel Morse sent the words ¿what hath God wrought¿ from the US Supreme Court to Baltimore in mere minutes, it was the first public demonstration of words travelling faster than human beings and farther than a line of sight in the US. This strange confluence of media, religion, technology, and US nationhood lies at the foundation of global networks.<br/>The advent of a telegraph cable crossing the Atlantic Ocean was viewed much the way the internet is today, to herald a coming world-wide unification. President Buchanan declared that the Atlantic Telegraph would be ¿an instrument destined by divine providence to diffuse religion, civilization, liberty, and law throughout the world¿ through which ¿the nations of Christendom [would] spontaneously unite.¿ Evangelical Protestantism embraced the new technology