Before Scopes - 9780820326467
Un libro in lingua di Israel Charles A. edito da Univ of Georgia Pr, 2004
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This study ranges over the fifty years preceding the trial to examine intertwined attitudes toward schooling and faith held by Tennessee's politically dominant white evangelical Protestants. Those decades saw accelerating social and economic change in the South, writes Charles A. Israel. Education, long the province of family and community, grew ever more centralized, professionalized, and isolated from the local values that first underpinned it. As Israel tells how parents and church, civic, and political leaders at first opposed public education, then endorsed it, and finally fought to control it, he reveals their deep ambivalence about the intangible costs of progress.
Lessons that Evangelicals took away from failed adult temperance campaigns also prompted them to reexert control over who and what influenced their children. Evangelicals rallied behind a 1915 bill requiring the Bible to be read daily in public schools. The 1925 Butler bill criminalized the teaching of evolution, which had come to symbolize all that was threatening about theological liberalism and materialistic science. The stage for the Scopes trial had been set. Delving deeply into the collective mind of a people in an age of uncertainty, Before Scopes sheds new light on religious belief, ideology, and expression.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Before Scopes
- Sottotitolo: Evangelicalism, Education, and Evolution in Tennessee, 1870-1925
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Israel Charles A.
- Editore: Univ of Georgia Pr
- Collana: Univ of Georgia Pr (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 27 Ottobre '04
- Genere: HISTORY
- Argomenti : Religion and science United States History 19th century Religion and science United States History 20th century Church and State United States History 19th century
- Pagine: 252
- Dimensioni mm: 222 x 146 x 12
- ISBN-10: 0820326461
- EAN-13: 9780820326467