RT Book
T1 Imperial childhoods and Christian mission: education and emotions in South India and Denmark
T2 Palgrave studies in the history of childhood
A2 Vallgårda, Karen 1980-
LA English
PP Houndmills u.a.
PB Palgrave Macmillan
YR 2015
ED 1. publ.
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/161290047X
AB Children and the Discordance of Colonial Conversions -- Controversy and Collapse : On Christian Day Schools -- Raising Two Categories of Children -- Tying Children to God with Love -- Science, Morality, Care, and Control -- Emotional Labor of Loss -- Planting Seeds in Young Hearts -- Epilogue: The Productive Figure of the Universal Child -- Appendix 1: Glossary -- Appendix 2: Overview over Mission Stations -- Bibliography: Unpublished Sources -- Bibliography: Literature
AB "Like other Christian missionaries operating throughout the colonized world, the Danish Evangelicals who traveled to India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries invested remarkable resources in the upbringing and education of children. At the same time as they sent most of their own children back to Denmark, they took South Indian children into their care. Through an extensive literary production, they also sought to educate children in Denmark about the 'heathen' world. From the perspective of the Indo-Danish mission encounter, Imperial Childhoods and Christian Mission examines the heavy ideological weight that different categories of children in India and Denmark were made to carry in both local and imperial politics. Employing a postcolonial history of emotions approach, Karen Vallgårda documents the centrality of emotional labor to the changing imagination of childhood. This book reassesses general assumptions about the history of childhood within the Western world by probing its entanglements with broader imperial developments. It suggests that interactions between transnational actors in different parts of the colonized world contributed to the contemporary emotional and scientific reconfiguration of childhood. Furthermore, it shows how projects of rescuing 'brown' children from their parents and societies helped portray imperialism as a benevolent and justified endeavor"--
NO Includes bibliographical references
CN BV3280.T3
SN 978-1-137-43298-8
SN 1-137-43298-5
K1 Missions, Danish : History : India, South
K1 Tamil (Indic people) : Missions : History
K1 Poor children : Education : History : India, South
K1 Children of missionaries : Education : History : Denmark
K1 Christian Education : History : India, South
K1 Christian Education : History : Denmark
K1 Evangelicalism : Social aspects : History : India, South
K1 Imperialism : Religious aspects : Christianity : History
K1 HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia
K1 HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century
K1 HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
K1 HISTORY / Europe / Scandinavia
K1 RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Children
K1 India, South : Social conditions
K1 Denmark : Social conditions