Many missionary societies established mission schools in the nineteenth century in the British Empire as a means to convert non-Europeans to Christianity. Although the details, differed in various colonial contexts, the driving ideology behind mission schools was that Christian morality was highest form of civilisation needed for non-Europeans to be useful members of colonies under British rule. This comprehensive survey of multi-colonial sites over the long time span clearly describes the missionary paradox that to draw in pupils they needed to provide secular education, but that secular education was seen to lead both to a moral crisis and to anti-British sentiments.
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Missionaries and modernity: Education in the British Empire, 1830-1910
Many missionary societies established mission schools in the nineteenth century in the British Empire as a means to convert non-Europeans to Christianity. Although the details, differed in various colonial contexts, the driving ideology behind mission schools was that Christian morality was highest form of civilisation needed for non-Europeans to be useful members of colonies under British rule. This comprehensive survey of multi-colonial sites over the long time span clearly describes the missionary paradox that to draw in pupils they needed to provide secular education, but that secular education was seen to lead both to a moral crisis and to anti-British sentiments.
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Missionaries and modernity: Education in the British Empire, 1830-1910
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Missionaries and modernity: Education in the British Empire, 1830-1910
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781526174437 |
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| Publisher: | Manchester University Press |
| Publication date: | 09/26/2023 |
| Series: | Studies in Imperialism , #199 |
| Pages: | 288 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.60(d) |
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