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Author Ferguson, John, 1921-1989.

Title Christianity, society, and education : Robert Raikes, past, present, and future / edited by John Ferguson
Published London : SPCK, 1981

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Description ix, 214 pages ; 22 cm
Contents Raikes and his age: Innovation and adaptation / Asa Briggs. Robert Raikes / Frank Booth. Raikes and reform / Shirley Elliott -- Nineteenth-century developments: Urban growth and the social role of the Stockport Sunday School, c. 1784-1833 / Malcolm Dick. The Sunday school in nineteenth-century literature / Colin Riches. Two centuries and six continents after / Gerald E. Knoff -- Present and future: Education and society / Krister Ottosson. Myths--utilities and a meaningful existence, 1900-1980 / Philip Cliff. Prison education / Alan Baxendale. The child in the urban industrial mission / Kathryn Copsey. Christian education / John H. Westerhoff
Analysis Sunday schools 1780-1980
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographies and index
Subject Raikes, Robert, 1736-1811.
Christian education of children -- History.
Sunday schools -- History.
Sunday schools -- Social aspects.
Christian education.
Author Ferguson, John, 1921-1989.
LC no. 81147999
ISBN 0281037876 (paperback)