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Growing Up Puritan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

N. Ray Hiner
N. Ray Hiner*
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University of Kansas
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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , Summer 1981 , pp. 195 - 203
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Copyright © 1981 by History of Education Society 

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References

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11. Ibid., pp. 77, xiv.Google Scholar
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19. Ibid., pp. 234–236, 269–271. For a review of Mather's relations with his children, see Ray Hiner, N., “Cotton Mather and His Children: The Evolution of a Parent Educator, 1686–1728,” Regulated Children/Liberated Children: Education in Psychohistorical Perspective, edited by Finkelstein, Barbara (New York, 1979), pp. 24–43. Holmes, Thomas J. provides the most comprehensive list of Cotton Mather's publications in his excellent Cotton Mather: A Bibliography of His Works, 3 vols. (Cambridge, 1940). Also see Lovelace, Richard, The American Pietism of Cotton Mather: Origins of American Evangelicalism (Grand Rapids, 1979).Google Scholar