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

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

Av Hugh Morrison, Mary Clare Martin, New Zealand) Morrison, Hugh (University of Otago, UK.) Martin, Mary Clare (University of Greenwich

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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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Utgivningsdatum2019-01-17
Mått156 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt453 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
Antal sidor336
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780367175627

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ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Contours and Issues in Children’s Religious HistoryHugh Morrison and Mary Clare MartinPart One: Missions, Families and Childhood1. Making missions through (re)making children: Non-kin domestic intimacy in the London Missionary Society’s work in late-nineteenth-century north IndiaRhonda Semple2. Making missionary children: Religion, culture and juvenile devianceEmily Manktelow3. Play, missionaries and the cross-cultural encounter in global perspective, 1800-1870Mary Clare MartinPart Two: Educational approaches and opportunities4. Sunday school prizes and books in early-nineteenth-century AmericaDavid Greenspoon5. Methodist childhoods: The education and formation of the young Methodist in Australia and Fiji, 1900-1950Christine Weir6. Leadership (with Fun and Games) instead of Domestic Service: Changing African Girlhood in a Johannesburg Mission, 1907-1940Deborah GaitskellPart Three: Literature and Discourses7. ‘Children of Silence’: Disability, childhood and Christian suffering in nineteenth-century BritainEsme Cleall8. ‘Nearly all are supported by children’: Charitable Childhoods in Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Literature for Children in the British WorldMargot Hillel9. Making Kiwi Christians: Children and religion in the House of ReedGeoffrey TroughtonPart Four: Religious Communities and Citizenship10. Signs and graces: Children’s experiences of confirmation in New Zealand, 1920s-1950sGrace Bateman11. A ‘Religion of the Backwoods’: Religion and the Canadian Boy Scout Movement in the interwar periodJames Trepanier12. Service, sacrifice and responsibility: Religion and Protestant settler childhood in New Zealand and Canada, c. 1860-1940Hugh MorrisonNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex

"If you believe that childhood represents a formative period of psychological development and a lens through which new experiences and knowledge—religious or otherwise—are filtered, you will want to incorporate essays such as the ones provided in Creating Religious Childhoods into your work." - Joy Schulz, Metropolitan Community College"Overall, this is a very rich and fascinating volume. Because it deals with majority Christian subjects and themes alone there is clearly great scope for follow-up research into other childhoods in other religious contexts, spatially and temporally." - Stephen Parker, University of Worcester