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George Albert Coe (1862-1951) was an educational theorist and scholar of religion.
Coe was the son of a Methodist minister. In 1884 he completed his BA in the University of Rochester and subsequently received an MA in theology and a PhD in philosophy from Boston University. he subsequently held a professorship of philosophy at the University of Southern California and the Northwestern University before moving to the Union Theological Seminary in Columbia University.[1] Here he was appointed professor of religious education and psychology.[2]
He played a role in the foundation of the Religious Education Association and served as the editor The Social Frontier, a publication of the Progressive Education Association.[1] His writings promoted Liberal Protestantism and the Social Gospel.[3] Coe was a Methodist who helped found the Methodist Federation for Social Action.[4]
Bibliography
- The Spiritual Life: Studies in the Science of Religion (1900)
- The Religion Of A Mature Mind (1902)
- Education in Religion and Morals (1904)
- The Psychology of Religion (1916)
- A Social Theory of Religious Education (1917)
References
Category:Union Theological Seminary faculty Category:American educational psychologists Category:Psychologists of religion Category:1862 births Category:1951 deaths
- ^ a b Setran, David P. (Winter 2005). "Morality for the "Democracy of God": George Albert Coe and the Liberal Protestant Critique of American Character Education, 1917–1940". Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation. 15 (1): 107–144.
- ^ Asquith Jr., Glenn H. (Fall 1982). "Anton T. Boisen and the Study of "Living Human Documents"". Journal of Presbyterian History (1962-1985). 60 (3): 244–265.
- ^ Stevens, Maryanne (1987). "Rethinking George Albert Coe". Religious Education. 82 (1): 115–126.
- ^ Nicholson, Ian (1994). "Academic Professionalization and Protestant Reconstruction, 1890-1902: George Albert Coe's Psychology of Religion". Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. 30 (4): 348–368.