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- Title
FREETHOUGHT CHILDREN'S LITERATURE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF RELIGIOUS IDENTITY IN LATE-NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA.
- Authors
Passet, Joanne E.
- Abstract
Argues that adult freethinkers used print culture to counter the Christian worldview permeating late-nineteenth-century U.S. schools and communities and, in the process, provided children with the tools they needed to explore and construct their religious identities. Challenge faced by the late-nineteenth-century women and men who wished to raise their children as freethinkers; Demographics of children's corner readership from 1885 through 1893; Process of constructing a religious identity in the case of freethinkers.
- Subjects
UNITED States; FREETHINKERS; RATIONALISTS; IDENTITY (Psychology); EDUCATION; READERSHIP; AMERICAN children
- Publication
Book History (Pennsylvania State University Press), 2005, Vol 8, p107
- ISSN
1098-7371
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/bh.2005.0009