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Baden-Powell wrote in a pamphlet "Scouting & Christianity" (1917): "Scouting is nothing less than applied [[Christianity]]." Since then, various Scouting Organizations have been founded for members of other religions, or which are not specific to any religion.
Baden-Powell wrote in a pamphlet "Scouting & Christianity" (1917): "Scouting is nothing less than applied [[Christianity]]." Since then, various Scouting Organizations have been founded for members of other religions, or which are not specific to any religion.
==Baden-Powell
In designing the Scouting program, Baden-Powell drew ideas from the Japanese warrior's code or "[[bushido]]", on the Victorian "ragged schools" movement, and the educational methods of Montessori. His ''Scouting for Boys'' (1st ed. 1908) synthesizes Zulu war-cry and Sherlock Holmes; it is full of practical tips on health and hygiene and object lessons in woodcraft. It is the original blueprint and inspiration for the Boy Scout Movement, and as a best-seller in the British Empire was second in its day only to the Bible.<ref>Baden-Powell, ''Scouting for Boys"[http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0192805479&id=LdtVxcFpWFQC&pg=PA44&lpg=PA44&ots=j1TxsQhuis&dq=baden-powell+scouting+bushido&sig=6nhFG3I_TD7AB0mP7lzSHebCT7c#PPA44,M1]</ref><ref>[http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-bp.htm Robert Baden-Powell as an Educational Innovator]</ref>
In designing the Scouting program, Baden-Powell drew ideas from the Japanese warrior's code or "[[bushido]]", on educational methods of the [[Africa]]n Zulu tribes, on the Victorian "ragged schools" movement, and the educational methods of Montessori.<ref>Baden-Powell, ''Scouting for Boys"[http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0192805479&id=LdtVxcFpWFQC&pg=PA44&lpg=PA44&ots=j1TxsQhuis&dq=baden-powell+scouting+bushido&sig=6nhFG3I_TD7AB0mP7lzSHebCT7c#PPA44,M1]</ref><ref>[http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-bp.htm Robert Baden-Powell as an Educational Innovator</ref>
==Japan==
==Japan==
==Further reading==
==Further reading==
* Baden-Powell, R.S.S. ''Scouting for Boys: A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship'' (1909), [http://books.google.com/books?id=ej0P_lyMEFkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:Scouting+intitle:for+intitle:Boys+intitle:A+intitle:Handbook+intitle:for&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=30&as_brr=3 excerpt and text search]
* Springhall, John. ''Youth, Empire and Society: British Youth Movements 1883-1940'' (1977), esp, 53-70.
* Springhall, John. ''Youth, Empire and Society: British Youth Movements 1883-1940'' (1977), esp, 53-70.