The Dissenting Tradition in American Education

by James C. Carper and Thomas C. Hunt

During the mid-nineteenth century, Americans created the functional equivalent of earlier state religious establishments. Supported by mandatory taxation, purportedly inclusive, and vested with messianic promise, public schooling, like the earlier established churches, was touted as a bulwark of the Republic and as an essential agent of moral and civic virtue. As was the case with dissenters from early American established churches, some citizens...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820479209
• ISBN13: 9780820479200
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.