Agency, Denominations and the Western Colleges, 1830–1860: Some Connections between Evangelicalism and American Higher Education

This essay focuses attention on certain aspects of the religious forces which powerfully shaped the small colleges which dominated American higher education prior to the Civil War. Religion, and more specifically evangelical Protestantism, has long been recognized as an important factor influencing...

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Main Author: Findlay, James D. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 1981
In: Church history
Year: 1981, Volume: 50, Issue: 1, Pages: 64-80
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