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

by Greven, Philip Greven, Philip and Philip Greven

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226308308
• ISBN13: 9780226308302
• Release Date: September 1988
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 446 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"