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- The Cambridge Companion to American Protestantism
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to American Protestantism
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Historical Overview
- Part II The Religious Culture of American Protestantism
- 5 Bible, Doctrine, and Theology
- 6 Worship and Preaching
- 7 Education
- 8 Work and Vocation
- 9 Politics and Government
- 10 Temperance
- 11 Gender, Sexuality, and Marriage
- 12 From Slavery to Black Lives Matter: American Protestants and Race
- 13 Faith Healing and Modern Medicine
- 14 Mental Illness
- 15 Protestant-Catholic Ecumenism and the Meanings of American Freedom
- 16 Missions
- Part III Theological Traditions
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion (continued from page ii)
7 - Education
from Part II - The Religious Culture of American Protestantism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 May 2022
- The Cambridge Companion to American Protestantism
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to American Protestantism
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Historical Overview
- Part II The Religious Culture of American Protestantism
- 5 Bible, Doctrine, and Theology
- 6 Worship and Preaching
- 7 Education
- 8 Work and Vocation
- 9 Politics and Government
- 10 Temperance
- 11 Gender, Sexuality, and Marriage
- 12 From Slavery to Black Lives Matter: American Protestants and Race
- 13 Faith Healing and Modern Medicine
- 14 Mental Illness
- 15 Protestant-Catholic Ecumenism and the Meanings of American Freedom
- 16 Missions
- Part III Theological Traditions
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion (continued from page ii)
Summary
American Protestants forcefully employed education in their efforts to Christianize America. Those efforts included not only the forming of publicly provided schools but a vast and impressive array of educational platforms, institutions, purveyors, and popularizers that have had a wide-ranging effect on American history and culture. Protestants in America have practiced their faith educationally at home, in schools, and through professional associations and confessional ministries; taken together, these tell the story of persistent, generous, engaging, and inclusive Protestantism in America – aiming not only to read, but to read the Bible written into the fabric of the nation.
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- The Cambridge Companion to American Protestantism , pp. 127 - 142Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022