a book
The Protestant Temperament
Philip J. Greven · 1977 · 431 pages
Delineates the personal experience and psychological and social effects of religion and piety in America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, focusing on Protestant attitudes toward God, children, sexuality, and selfhood
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Josh Marshall
“@yeselson @agordonreed a bit distant from this but there’s a wonderful book called the Protestant Temperament. About evolving theories of child rearing in the 17th/18th. Never really got respect in the history field because it was so psych based. But a quite wonderful book that gets at some of this.”↗