The Protestant Temperament: Patterns of Child-Rearing, Religious Experience, and the Self in Early America - Hardcover

Greven, Philip J.

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Delineates the personal experience and psychological and social effects of religion and piety in America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, focusing on Protestant attitudes toward God, children, sexuality, and selfhood

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Philip Greven, professor of history at Rutgers University, is the author ofFour Generations and Child-Rearing Concepts, 1628-1861.

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