Creating Religious Childhoods In Anglo-World And British Colonial Contexts, 1800-1950 (Studies In Childhood, 1700 To The Present)

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: contours and issues in children's religious history -- 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 -- 2 Making missionary children: religion, culture and juvenile deviance -- 3 Play, missionaries and the cross-cultural encounter in global perspective, 1800-1870 -- PART TWO Educational approaches and opportunities -- 4 Sunday school prizes and books in early-nineteenth-century America -- 5 Methodist childhoods: the education and formation of the young Methodist in Australia and Fiji, 1900-1950 -- 6 Leadership (with fun and games) instead of domestic service: changing African girlhood in a Johannesburg mission, 1907-1940 -- PART THREE Literature and discourses -- 7 'Children of silence': disability, childhood and Christian suffering in nineteenth-century Britain -- 8 'Nearly all are supported by children': charitable childhoods in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century literature for children in the British world -- 9 Making Kiwi Christians: children and religion in the House of Reed -- PART FOUR Religious communities and citizenship -- 10 Signs and graces: children's experiences of confirmation in New Zealand, 1920s-1950s -- 11 A 'religion of the backwoods': religion and the Canadian Boy Scout movement in the interwar period -- 12 Service, sacrifice and responsibility: religion and Protestant settler childhood in New Zealand and Canada, c. 1860-1940 -- Bibliography -- Index

• • Author: Hugh Douglas Morrison, Mary Clare Martin
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Nov 29, 2016
• • Number of Pages: 318 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1472489489
• • ISBN-13: 9781472489487