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

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-17562-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 488 g

Reihe: Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Morrison, Hugh

Martin, Mary Clare

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Das Priestertum
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Hugh Morrison, Mary Clare Martin