K. Vallgårda

Imperial Childhoods and Christian Mission (eBook, PDF)

Education and Emotions in South India and Denmark

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Making an important addition to the highly Britain-dominated field of imperial studies, this book shows that, like numerous other evangelicals operating throughout the colonized world at this time, Danish missionaries invested remarkable resources in the education of different categories children in both India and Denmark.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 279
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137432995
• Artikelnr.: 42110874

Autorenporträt

Karen Vallgårda is Assistant Professor of History at the SAXO-Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Children and the Discordance of Colonial Conversions 2. Controversy and Collapse: On Christian Day Schools 3. Raising Two Categories of Children 4. Tying Children to God with Love 5. Science, Morality, Care, and Control 6. Emotional Labor of Loss 7. Planting Seeds in Young Hearts Epilogue: The Productive Figure of the Universal Child Appendix 1: Glossary Appendix 2: Overview over Mission Stations

Rezensionen

"Vallgårda's book is immensely impressive. It is distinguished by wide and close reading and by innovative methodology. In critical and convincing ways it complicates missionary interventions and the missionary experience." - Reviews in History