Protestant Children, Missions and Education in the British World
The British Protestant children’s missionary movement of the nineteenth and early- to mid-twentieth century was an educational movement, wherein philanthropy and pedagogy went hand in hand. Bringing an educational lens to bear on this group provides a more cohesive interpretive framework by which to...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2021
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| In: |
Brill research perspectives in religion and education
Year: 2020, Volume: 2, Issue: 2, Pages: 1-122 |
| Further subjects: | B
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B Empire B Religion B Britain B Missions B Emotions B New Zealand B Canada B Education B Colonialism B Childhood B South Africa B Australia B Identity |
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| Summary: | The British Protestant children’s missionary movement of the nineteenth and early- to mid-twentieth century was an educational movement, wherein philanthropy and pedagogy went hand in hand. Bringing an educational lens to bear on this group provides a more cohesive interpretive framework by which to make sense of the various elements than hitherto has been considered. As such, the Protestant children’s missionary movement emerges historically as a much more complex entity than simply a means of raising money or cramming heads full of knowledge. Across a range of geographic settings it acted as: a key site of juvenile religious and identity formation; a defining vehicle for the creation and maintenance of various types or scales of community (local, denominational, emotional, regional, national or global); a movement within which civic and religious messages were emphatically conflated (especially with respect to nation and empire); and in which children both participated in imperial or quasi-global networks of information exchange (especially as consumers of missionary periodicals) and became informed, active and responsive agents of missionary support in their own right. |
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| ISSN: | 2589-5303 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Brill research perspectives in religion and education
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/25895303-12340004 |
