The world history textbook in secondary education: Religious content and the ideology of progress, 1800-1900

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dc.contributor.advisorHaskell, Thomas L.
dc.creatorChilton, David L.
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-04T00:01:12Z
dc.date.available2009-06-04T00:01:12Z
dc.date.issued1990
dc.description.abstractRecent textbook studies find the human religious heritage curiously absent from public school history textbooks, an absence perhaps explainable through the development of an ideology of progress, lying at the heart of the modern public educational establishment. This ideology achieves dominance after the Civil War. Antebellum texts, containing a fusion of classical and Judeo-Christian historical outlooks, show no consensus upon overarching historical notions of progress. These texts contain strong Biblical content, including miraculous and supernatural elements, and serve to impress upon the reader moral values of the classical/Judeo-Christian heritage, while justifying the Protestant Reformation. Progressive notions, when present, are usually derived from Christian, post-millennial outlooks. Post-bellum textbooks adopt increasingly secular notions of progress. Biblical and moral content diminish; the miraculous and supernatural virtually disappear. The theme of progress becomes the prime determinant for selecting historical content, a theme increasingly separated from religious development and increasingly linked to political and especially technological advancement.
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dc.identifier.callnoThesis Hist. 1990 Chilton
dc.identifier.citationChilton, David L.. "The world history textbook in secondary education: Religious content and the ideology of progress, 1800-1900." (1990) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/13420">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/13420</a>.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/13420
dc.language.isoeng
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dc.subjectHistory of education
dc.subjectAmerican history
dc.subjectReligious history
dc.titleThe world history textbook in secondary education: Religious content and the ideology of progress, 1800-1900
dc.typeThesis
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thesis.degree.departmentHistory
thesis.degree.disciplineHumanities
thesis.degree.grantorRice University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts
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