Portrayal of religion against the backdrop of progress and modernity in the US and Canadian social science textbooks from 1850 to 2010.

Autor/inn/en	Lee, Seungah S.; Jiménez, Jeremy
Titel	Portrayal of religion against the backdrop of progress and modernity in the US and Canadian social science textbooks from 1850 to 2010.
Quelle	Aus: Hildebrandt-Wypych, Dobrochna (Hrsg.); Wiseman, Alexander W. (Hrsg.): Comparative perspectives on school textbooks. Analyzing shifting discourses on nationhood, citizenship, gender, and religion. Cham: palgrave macmillan, Springer International Publishing AG (2021) S. 265-288 PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext (2); PDF als Volltext (3) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Illustrationen; Literaturangaben S. 285-288
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Sammelwerksbeitrag
ISBN	978-3-030-68718-2; 978-3-030-68719-9
DOI	10.1007/978-3-030-68719-9_12
Schlagwörter	Gesellschaft; Schulbuch; Schulbuchforschung; Geschichte (Histor); Moderne; Sozialkunde; Religion; Religiosität; Entwicklung; Fortschritt; Kanada; USA
Abstract	When the "great Agnostic" Robert Ingersoll wrote "day by day, religious conceptions grow less and less intense (and) day by day, the old spirit dies out of book and creed" in 1876, he was not alone in predicting the significant decline of Christianity in the United States and elsewhere. In the roughly 150 years since his words, and especially in the early twenty-? rst century, trends regarding religious observance and practice have gradually echoed his projections. According to the Pew Research Center (2019), Americans identifying as Christian declined 12 percentage points from 2009 to 2019 (from 77% to 65%), while the religiously unaf? liated (aka "the nones") have risen 9% (from 17% to 26%) over the same period. Similar declines have taken place in Canada (Lipka, 2019). In 2018, 55% of Canadians identi? ed as Christian while 29% identi? ed as either atheist, agnostic, or no religious af? liation, whereas two-thirds of Canadians identi? ed as Christian as recently as 2011 (Pew Research Center, 2013). Our study seeks to uncover the extent to which Christianity-themed discussions in the US and Canadian social science textbooks re? ect these trends, and the extent to which these textbooks present Christianity as being an obstacle, catalyst, or non-factor in how each respective national society narrates its secular myths of modernity and progress.
Erfasst von	Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsmedien \| Georg-Eckert-Institut (GEI), Braunschweig
Update	2023/1