Implied Rather than Intended? Children's Picture Books, Civil Religion, and the First Landing on the Moon.
Despite primarily catering to a U.S. audience for whom religion exerts a greater influence than anywhere else in the Western world, children's picture books dealing with the first landing on the moon in 1969 are reticent to conceptualise it in religious terms. Significantly, this is the same approac...
| Publicado en: | Children's Literature in Education Vol. 55; no. 3; pp. 483 - 501 |
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