Pedagogy for Religion : Missionary Education and the Fashioning of Hindus and Muslims in Bengal /

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Offering a new approach to the study of religion and empire, this innovative book challenges a widespread myth of modernity-that Western rule has had a secularizing effect on the non-West-by looking closely at missionary schools in Bengal. Parna Sengupta examines the period from 1850 to the 1930s an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sengupta, Parna, 1971-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Secularization
Muslims > Education
Missions > Educational work
Education
Church schools
HISTORY > Asia > General.
EDUCATION > Administration > General.
EDUCATION > Organizations & Institutions.
Écoles confessionnelles > Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde) > Histoire.
Musulmans > Éducation > Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde) > Histoire.
Hindous > Éducation > Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde) > Histoire.
Éducation > Bengale (Bangladesh et Inde) > Histoire.
Church schools > India > Bengal > History.
Muslims > Education > India > Bengal > History.
Hindus > Education > India > Bengal > History.
Education > India > Bengal > History.
India > Bengal
History
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The molding of native character
  • A curriculum for religion
  • An object lesson in colonial pedagogy
  • The schoolteacher as modern father
  • Teaching gender in the colony
  • Mission schools and Qur'an schools
  • Conclusion : pedagogy for tolerance.

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