Historical Role Analysis in the Study of Religious Change
Subtitle: Mass Educational Development in Norway, 17401891 (American Sociological Association Rose Monographs)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 23, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9780521031813
Subjects: Education; Religion & Beliefs; Social History; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Religion; History - General History; Norway; Europe - Scandinavia; Sociology of Religion; History / Scandinavia; History : Social History; Norway--Religious life and customs; Religion / Sociology of Religion; Social Science : Sociology of Religion; History; Secularism; Sociology
First sentence: A concern with the prerequisites for and consequences of mass educational development has been a recurrent theme in both the history and historiography of those societies where knowledge and skills based on literacy were regarded as preconditions for power and economic growth.