Chapter published in:
Learning to Read, Learning Religion: Catechism primers in Europe from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries
Edited by Britta Juska-Bacher, Matthew Grenby, Tuija Laine and Wendelin Sroka
[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition 14] 2023
► pp. 1–16

Chapter 1
Introduction

| Bern University of Teacher Education
| Newcastle University
| University of Helsinki
| Independent researcher, Essen
Article outline
  • 1.1Points of departure, aims and general considerations
  • 1.2Language and definitions
  • 1.3Thematic scope
  • 1.4Geographical coverage
  • 1.5Catechism primers: Defining and structuring the field
  • 1.6Content and structure of this volume
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 06 January 2023
https://doi.org/10.1075/clcc.14.01jus
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