Creating Religious Childhoods in Anglo-World and British Colonial Contexts, 1800-1950

Herausgeber: Martin, Mary Clare; Morrison, Hugh

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on examples from British world expressions of Christianity, this collection further greater understanding of religion as a critical element of modern children's and young people's history. It builds on emerging scholarship that challenges the view that religion had a solely negative impact on nineteenth- and twentieth-century children, or that 'secularization' is the only lens to apply to childhood and religion. Putting forth the argument that religion was an abiding influence among British world children throughout the nineteenth and most of the twentieth centuries, this volume places 'religion' at the center of analysis and discussion. At the same time, it positions the religious factor within a broader social and cultural framework. The essays focus on the historical contexts in which religion was formative for children in various 'British' settings denoted as 'Anglo' or 'colonial' during the nineteenth and early- to mid-twentieth centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9780367175627
• ISBN-10: 0367175622
• Artikelnr.: 55337542

Autorenporträt

Hugh Morrison, Mary Clare Martin

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Contours and Issues in Children's Religious History
Hugh Morrison and Mary Clare Martin
Part One: Missions, Families and Childhood
1. Making missions through (re)making children: Non-kin domestic intimacy
in the London Missionary Society's work in late-nineteenth-century north
India
Rhonda Semple
2. Making missionary children: Religion, culture and juvenile deviance
Emily Manktelow
3. Play, missionaries and the cross-cultural encounter in global
perspective, 1800-1870
Mary Clare Martin
Part Two: Educational approaches and opportunities
4. Sunday school prizes and books in early-nineteenth-century America
David Greenspoon
5. Methodist childhoods: The education and formation of the young Methodist
in Australia and Fiji, 1900-1950
Christine Weir
6. Leadership (with Fun and Games) instead of Domestic Service: Changing
African Girlhood in a Johannesburg Mission, 1907-1940
Deborah Gaitskell
Part Three: Literature and Discourses
7. 'Children of Silence': Disability, childhood and Christian suffering in
nineteenth-century Britain
Esme Cleall
8. 'Nearly all are supported by children': Charitable Childhoods in
Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Literature for Children in the
British World
Margot Hillel
9. Making Kiwi Christians: Children and religion in the House of Reed
Geoffrey Troughton
Part Four: Religious Communities and Citizenship
10. Signs and graces: Children's experiences of confirmation in New
Zealand, 1920s-1950s
Grace Bateman
11. A 'Religion of the Backwoods': Religion and the Canadian Boy Scout
Movement in the interwar period
James Trepanier
12. Service, sacrifice and responsibility: Religion and Protestant settler
childhood in New Zealand and Canada, c. 1860-1940
Hugh Morrison
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index