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Author Morrison, Hugh

Title Creating Religious Childhoods in Anglo-World and British Colonial Contexts, 1800-1950
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (319 pages)
Series Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
Contents 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 America5 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 world9 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
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Subject Christian education of children -- History
Christian children -- Religious life -- History
Children -- Religious life -- History
Children -- Religious life.
Children -- Religious life
Christian children -- Religious life
Christian education of children
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Clare Martin, Mary
ISBN 9781315408767
1315408767