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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Main Author: Morrison, Hugh Douglas 1951- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2021
In: Brill research perspectives in religion and education
Year: 2020, Volume: 2, Issue: 2, Pages: 1-122
Further subjects:B Literature
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.
ISSN:2589-5303
Contains:Enthalten in: Brill research perspectives in religion and education
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/25895303-12340004