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

Greven, Philip

ISBN 10: 0226308308 / ISBN 13: 9780226308302

Published by University of Chicago Press, 1988

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Clean tight copy with smooth spine. Spine panel has faded.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Protestant Temperament: Patterns of Child-Rearing, Religious Experience, and the Self in Early America
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226308308
• ISBN 13: 9780226308302
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Social Sciences

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Synopsis

Bringing together an extraordinary richness of evidence—from letters, diaries, and other intimate family records of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries—Philip Greven explores the strikingly distinctive ways in which Protestant children were reared in America. In tracing the hidden continuities of religious experience, of attitudes toward God, children, the self, sexuality, pleasure, virtue, and achievement, Greven identifies three distinct Protestant temperaments prevailing among Americans at the time: the Evangelical, the Moderate, and the General. The Protestant Temperament is a powerful reassessment of the role of child-rearing and religion in early American life.

About the Author

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