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Imperial Childhoods and Christian Mission K. Vallgarda

Imperial Childhoods and Christian Mission By K. Vallgarda

Imperial Childhoods and Christian Mission by K. Vallgarda


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Summary

Making an important addition to the highly Britain-dominated field of imperial studies, this book shows that, like numerous other evangelicals operating throughout the colonized world at this time, Danish missionaries invested remarkable resources in the education of different categories children in both India and Denmark.

Imperial Childhoods and Christian Mission Summary

Imperial Childhoods and Christian Mission: Education and Emotions in South India and Denmark by K. Vallgarda

Making an important addition to the highly Britain-dominated field of imperial studies, this book shows that, like numerous other evangelicals operating throughout the colonized world at this time, Danish missionaries invested remarkable resources in the education of different categories children in both India and Denmark.

Imperial Childhoods and Christian Mission Reviews

Vallgarda's book is immensely impressive. It is distinguished by wide and close reading and by innovative methodology. In critical and convincing ways it complicates missionary interventions and the missionary experience. - Reviews in History

About K. Vallgarda

Karen Vallgarda is Assistant Professor of History at the SAXO-Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Children and the Discordance of Colonial Conversions 2. Controversy and Collapse: On Christian Day Schools 3. Raising Two Categories of Children 4. Tying Children to God with Love 5. Science, Morality, Care, and Control 6. Emotional Labor of Loss 7. Planting Seeds in Young Hearts Epilogue: The Productive Figure of the Universal Child Appendix 1: Glossary Appendix 2: Overview over Mission Stations

Additional information

NLS9781349492596
9781349492596
1349492590
Imperial Childhoods and Christian Mission: Education and Emotions in South India and Denmark by K. Vallgarda
New
Paperback
Palgrave Macmillan
2015-01-01
279
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