Pedagogy for Religion
Sengupta, Parna,
Pedagogy for Religion : Missionary Education and the fashioning of Hindus and Muslims in Bengal / Parna Sengupta - Hyderabad :Orient Blackswan 2011 - x, 211p. 24cm.
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.
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 and finds that modern education effectively reinforced the place of religion in colonial India. Debates over the mundane aspects of schooling, rather than debates between religious leaders, transformed the everyday definitions of what it meant to be a Christian, Hindu, or Muslim. Speaking to our own t
9788125045052
Variety Books Publishers & Distributors :B-10 Street No 2 West Vinod Nagar Delhi 110092
Education
Schools & their activities; special education
Church schools -- India -- Bengal -- History.
Missions -- Educational work
Muslims -- Education
Muslims -- Education
Education
371.0712 SEN
Pedagogy for Religion : Missionary Education and the fashioning of Hindus and Muslims in Bengal / Parna Sengupta - Hyderabad :Orient Blackswan 2011 - x, 211p. 24cm.
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.
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 and finds that modern education effectively reinforced the place of religion in colonial India. Debates over the mundane aspects of schooling, rather than debates between religious leaders, transformed the everyday definitions of what it meant to be a Christian, Hindu, or Muslim. Speaking to our own t
9788125045052
Variety Books Publishers & Distributors :B-10 Street No 2 West Vinod Nagar Delhi 110092
Education
Schools & their activities; special education
Church schools -- India -- Bengal -- History.
Missions -- Educational work
Muslims -- Education
Muslims -- Education
Education
371.0712 SEN
