Sunday School by Anne M Boylan
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.
ANNE M. BOYLAN is a professor emerita of history and women and gender studies at the University of Delaware in Newark. She is the author of Sunday School: The Formation of An American Institution, 1790-1880; The Origins of Women's Activism: New York and Boston, 1797-1840; and Women's Rights in the United States: A History in Documents.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780300048148 |
| ISBN 10 | 0300048149 |
| Title | Sunday School |
| Author | Anne M Boylan |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
| Year published | 1990-07-25 |
| Number of pages | 237 |
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