Missionaries and modernity (eBook)

Education in the British Empire, 1830-1910

Felicity Jensz (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
288 Seiten
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-5296-1 (ISBN)

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Many missionary societies established mission schools in the nineteenth century in the British Empire as a means to convert non-Europeans to Christianity. Although the details, differed in various colonial contexts, the driving ideology behind mission schools was that Christian morality was highest form of civilisation needed for non-Europeans to be useful members of colonies under British rule. This comprehensive survey of multi-colonial sites over the long time span clearly describes the missionary paradox that to draw in pupils they needed to provide secular education, but that secular education was seen to lead both to a moral crisis and to anti-British sentiments.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.2.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Imperialism
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Schulbuch / Allgemeinbildende Schulen
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: British Empire • Colonial entanglements • denationalisation • Education • humanitarianism • Missionary conferences • Negro Education Act • philanthropic • Select Committee on Aboriginal Tribes (British Settlements) • Sri Lanka
• ISBN-10: 1-5261-5296-7 / 1526152967
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-5296-1 / 9781526152961