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In:Learning to Read, Learning Religion: Catechism primers in Europe from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries
Edited by Britta Juska-Bacher, M.O. Grenby, Tuija Laine and Wendelin Sroka
[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition 14] 2023
► pp. 124–139

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Catechism primers in Greenland

Editors
 | Ilisimatusarfik
 | Independent researcher
Published online: 6 January 2023
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Article outline
  • Schooling and religion in Greenland: Eighteenth to mid-twentieth century
  • Catechism primers in Greenland
    • Availability of sources & state of research
    • The first Greenlandic manuscripts and books in print
    • The first catechism primer in Greenlandic
  • Reading primers (in chronological order)
  • Secondary sources
  • Notes
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Reading primers (in chronological order)
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