Sunday School: The Formation of an American Institution, 1790-1880

by Anne M. Boylan

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300048149
• ISBN13: 9780300048148
• Release Date: July 1990
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"