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Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs (August 2, 1876 – April 14, 1978) was an editor, author, teacher, and religious activist who led a revolution in Unitarian religious education. Fahs' teaching and writing focused on a method of experiential learning that she hoped would enable children to develop their own ideas about religion and spirituality.〔http://www.cul.columbia.edu/indiv/burke/archives/awts/exhibit/fahs.html〕 ==Early life== Sophia Lyons Fahs was born on August 2, 1876, in China, to Presbyterian missionaries.〔(Sophia Lyon Fahs : Liberal Religious Educator )〕 Her father, David Nelson Lyon, and mother, Mandana Doolittle Lyon, moved with her to Wooster, OH when she was three and a half years old.〔(Talbot School of Theology: Christian Educators )〕 Her upbringing was strictly evangelical and ritualistic, as she herself describes: :"We had family prayers and Bible reading every day. Each of us took our turn until we went right through the Bible. Sunday was a very carefully observed day, spent mostly going to church, reading religious books, playing Bible games and singing. I had been a faithful Sunday School pupil all through childhood. The religion of the home was serious, devout, sturdy, and sincere."〔Parke, D. (1965). The historical and religious antecedents of the new Beacon series in religious education. (Doctoral dissertation, Boston University, 1965). Dissertation Abstracts International 26/05, 2897.〕 Fahs received her B.A. from Wooster College in 1897, as well as an honorary degree in 1961.〔http://www.wooster.edu/Academics/Libraries/collections/Collections/~/media/Files/Academics/Libraries/Special-Collections/COWArchives-HonoraryDegrees-byname.ashx〕 She received her M.A. from the Teachers College of Columbia University (1904) and her B.D. from Union Theological Seminary (1926).〔 She commented on her education, saying: :"I decided I must have a theological education. I wanted to have the same education ministers have, because I want to understand the things that they understood."〔 While studying elementary education, Sophia Lyon married Charles "Harvey" Fahs in June 1902. She had five children, three of whom survived.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sophia Lyon Fahs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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