Sunday School: The Formation of an American Institution, 1790-1880
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0300048149
ISBN 13
9780300048148
Category
church history
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Publication Year
1990
Publisher
Pages
237
Description
This engrossing book traces the social history of Protestant Sunday schools from their origins in the 1790s-when they taught literacy to poor working children-to their consolidation in the 1870s, when they had become the primary source of new church members for the major Protestant denominations. Anne M. Boylan describes not only the schools themselves but also their place within a national network of evangelical institutions, their complementary relationship to local common schools, and their connection with the changing history of youth and women in the nineteenth century. Her book is a signal contribution to our understanding of American religious and social history, education history, women's history, and the history of childhood. - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
