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"This is the story of how one continental religious community, the Unitarians, broke out of the lockstep of traditional, doctrine-centered pedagogy and invented a new appraoch to religious education based on the needs and interests of children. Affirming the humanity of Jesus, the religious valisity of non-biblical experience, and the principle of growth as both the means and end of education, the Unitarians created a curriculum that children loved, parents welcomes, and was adopted by numerous Protestant, Jewish, and humanist families and congregations"--P. [4] pbk. cover.