Creating Religious Childhoods in Anglo-World and British Colonial Contexts, 1800-1950

Hugh Morrison, Mary Clare Martin

"If you believe that childhood represents a formative period of psychological development and a lens through which new experiences and knowledge—religious or otherwise—are filtered, you will want to incorporate essays such as the ones provided in Creating Religious Childhoods into your work." - Joy Schulz, Metropolitan Community College"Overall, this is a very rich and fascinating volume. Because it deals with majority Christian subjects and themes alone there is clearly great scope for follow-up research into other childhoods in other religious contexts, spatially and temporally." - Stephen Parker, University of Worcester

• ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Contours and Issues in Children’s Religious HistoryHugh Morrison and Mary Clare MartinPart One: Missions, Families and Childhood1. Making missions through (re)making children: Non-kin domestic intimacy in the London Missionary Society’s work in late-nineteenth-century north IndiaRhonda Semple2. Making missionary children: Religion, culture and juvenile devianceEmily Manktelow3. Play, missionaries and the cross-cultural encounter in global perspective, 1800-1870Mary Clare MartinPart Two: Educational approaches and opportunities4. Sunday school prizes and books in early-nineteenth-century AmericaDavid Greenspoon5. Methodist childhoods: The education and formation of the young Methodist in Australia and Fiji, 1900-1950Christine Weir6. Leadership (with Fun and Games) instead of Domestic Service: Changing African Girlhood in a Johannesburg Mission, 1907-1940Deborah GaitskellPart Three: Literature and Discourses7. ‘Children of Silence’: Disability, childhood and Christian suffering in nineteenth-century BritainEsme Cleall8. ‘Nearly all are supported by children’: Charitable Childhoods in Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Literature for Children in the British WorldMargot Hillel9. Making Kiwi Christians: Children and religion in the House of ReedGeoffrey TroughtonPart Four: Religious Communities and Citizenship10. Signs and graces: Children’s experiences of confirmation in New Zealand, 1920s-1950sGrace Bateman11. A ‘Religion of the Backwoods’: Religion and the Canadian Boy Scout Movement in the interwar periodJames Trepanier12. Service, sacrifice and responsibility: Religion and Protestant settler childhood in New Zealand and Canada, c. 1860-1940Hugh MorrisonNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex