Religion and Education in Action

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Religion and Education in Action
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Religion in Action

• First Theological Schools
• First Parochial Schools
• Religious Communities
• Religious Expression

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Religion in Action

• Revivalism and Millennialism
• Churches and the Slavery Question

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First Religious Schools
Religion in Action

• First Theological Seminaries
• Bethlehem Theological Seminary, Connecticut
• 1825 at Carlisle, Pennsylvania

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First Parochial Schools

• Elizabeth Bayley Seton founded the first
  parochial school in the United States in
  Goshenhoppen, Pennsylvania

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Religious Communities
Religion in Action

• Rappites
• Shakers
• Oneida

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Religious Expression
Religion in Action

• Unitarian
• Church of Latter-Day Saints
• Growth of African-American Churches

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Revivalism and Millennialism
Religion in Action

• The Second Great Awakening
• Millerism

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Public School Movement
Education in Action

• Arguments for and Against Public Schools
• 1852-Mass. 1st Compulsory Education Law
• First Public High School
• July 4, 1848 - The Lockport Union School
• Special Schools for the Blind and Deaf

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Higher Education
Education in Action

• Growth of State Universities
• Increase in the number of private colleges with
  religious ties
• The 1st womens colleges
• Holyoke College opened in 1837

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Higher Education

• Teacher Training Institutes
• Founding of West Point
• Proposed National University