Protestant Missionary Childrens Lives C 1870 1950

Protestant missionary children were uniquely ‘empire citizens’ through their experiences of living in empire and in religiously formed contexts. This book examines their lives through the related lenses of parental, institutional and child narratives. To do so it draws on histories of childhood and of emotions, using a range of sources including oral history. It argues that missionary children were doubly shaped by parents’ concerns and institutional policy responses. At the same time children saw their own lives as both ‘ordinary’ and ‘complicated’. Literary representations boosted adult narratives. Empire provided a complex space in which these children navigated their way between the expectations of two, if not three, different cultures. The focus is on a range of settings and on the early twentieth century. Therefore, the book offers a complex and comparative picture of missionary children’s lives.

Protestant missionary children's historical lives are examined from the perspectives of parents, churches and children, to reveal complicated existences. This book takes a comparative approach across a range of settings, drawing on oral history, childhood history and histories of emotion. It extends scholarship into the mid-twentieth century.

Hugh Morrison argues that children’s support of Protestant missionary activity since the early 1800s has been an educational movement rather than a financial one and outlines how it has shaped minds and bodies for the sake of God, empire and nation.

Drawing on examples from British world expressions of Christianity, this collection further greater understanding of religion as a critical element of modern children’s and young people’s history. It builds on emerging scholarship that challenges the view that religion had a solely negative impact on nineteenth- and twentieth-century children, or that ‘secularization’ is the only lens to apply to childhood and religion. Putting forth the argument that religion was an abiding influence among British world children throughout the nineteenth and most of the twentieth centuries, this volume places ‘religion’ at the center of analysis and discussion. At the same time, it positions the religious factor within a broader social and cultural framework. The essays focus on the historical contexts in which religion was formative for children in various ‘British’ settings denoted as ‘Anglo’ or ‘colonial’ during the nineteenth and early- to mid-twentieth centuries. These contexts include mission fields, churches, families, Sunday schools, camps, schools and youth movements. Together they are treated as ‘sites’ in which religion contributed to identity formation, albeit in different ways relating to such factors as gender, race, disability and denomination. The contributors develop this subject for childhoods that were experienced largely, but not exclusively, outside the ‘metropole’, in a diversity of geographical settings. By extending the geographic range, even within the British world, it provides a more rounded perspective on children’s global engagement with religion.

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

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