Studying Literacy at the Community Level
A Research Note
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3225670 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ross W Beales (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 93 |
| Publication date | 1978-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/203670 |
| OpenAlex | W2322483234 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Studying Literacy at the Community Level: A Research Note. This note on the study of literacy in colonial New England grows out of a social and demographic reconstitution of mid-eighteenth-century Grafton, Massachusetts. The objective of the reconstitution is to study the dynamics of the religious revivals of the I740s. One variable in the response to the Great Awakening may have been the literacy of a community's population. Contemporary critics denounced the revivalists' appeal to the passions rather than to the mind and portrayed participants in the Awakening as coming from the younger and illiterate ranks of New England society.1 Revivalists preached extemporaneously, while other ministers read their sermons from prepared texts. Revivalists emphasized, at least in their critics' eyes, immediate knowledge from God's spirit rather than the sound knowledge of the Scriptures. Subsequent studies have noted the anti-intellectual qualities of revivalism. Perhaps, then, an individual's literacy made a difference in his or her response to the Awakening. How does one learn whether the members of an entire com
Literacy · Pedagogy · Political science · Sociology · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 1986 - 2010 (25) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |