Christianity, society, and education
Subtitle: Robert Raikes, past, present, and future
By: edited by John Ferguson.
Contributors: Ferguson, John, 1921-
Publisher: SPCK
Published: 1981
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Raikes, Robert, 1735-1811.; Sunday schools -- History.; Christian education of children -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: Raikes and his age: Innovation and adaptation / Asa Briggs. Robert Raikes / Frank Booth. Raikes and reform / Shirley Elliott; title: 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; title: Present and future: Education and society / Krister Ottosson. Myths; title: 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.