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

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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Sengupta, Parna, 1971-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.