Hugh Morrison is Senior Lecturer in the College of Education at the University of Otago, NZ, and Mary Clare Martin is Head of the Centre for Play and Recreation in the School of Education at the University of Greenwich, UK.

• 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

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