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EJ758421 - Reading Cultures, Christianization, and Secularization: Universalism and Particularism in the Swedish History of Literacy

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ERIC #:EJ758421
Title:Reading Cultures, Christianization, and Secularization: Universalism and Particularism in the Swedish History of Literacy
Authors:Lindmark, Daniel
Descriptors:Foreign Countries; Popular Education; Educational Policy; Reading Instruction; Literacy; Ideology; Educational History; Religion; Elementary Education
Source:Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, v34 n2-3 p197-217 Jun 2003
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Publisher:Springer. 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013. Tel: 800-777-4643; Tel: 212-460-1500; Fax: 212-348-4505; e-mail: service-ny@springer.com; Web site: http://www.springerlink.com
Publication Date:2003-06-00
Pages:21
Pub Types:Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Abstract:In the organization and ideology of the Lutheran state churches, Tim Knudsen has identified the roots of universalism in the Nordic welfare states. This article applies a similar perspective to the aims and contents of early modern Nordic popular education. Historiographically, universalism was emphasized by Egil Johansson, who recognized the universal aim of Christian teaching as the prime mover of Swedish alphabetization. The present article tries to problematize this perspective by demonstrating the long-term divergence of Swedish bourgeois and popular print cultures, representing parallel processes of secularization and christianization, and by discussing particular meanings of parts of the alleged universal early modern reading culture, viz. reading as a vehicle of Swedishness in colonial America and religious identity in Northern Sweden, respectively. The elementary school is identified as a major instrument of homogenizing reading culture, and the article concludes by indicating universalism as a living legacy in Swedish educational policy.
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Identifiers:Sweden
Record Type:Journal
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ISSN:ISSN-0826-4805
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Languages:English
Education Level:Elementary Education
 

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