The sabbath was a resistance zone penetrated by Sunday newspapers

Evidence

An additional time zone to be penetrated once space was exhausted was sacred time, in particular the sabbath. The greatest invention of the ancient Hebrews was the idea of the sabbath, though I am using this word in a fully secular sense: the invention of a region free from control of the state and commerce where another dimension of life could be experienced and where altered forms of social relationship could occur. As such, the sabbath has always been a major resistance to state and market power. For purposes of communi- cation, the effective penetration of the sabbath came in the 1880s with the invention of the Sunday newspaper. — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 861

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sabbath redefined as a secular region free from state and commerce control — a striking redefinition worth retaining.
• SEED: The sabbath-as-resistance framing is a strong historical lens for arguments about leisure, markets, and attention in the present.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 861