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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1. Verfasser: Sengupta, Parna, 1971-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011.
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Online-Zugang:DE-862
DE-863
Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 211 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-204) and index.
ISBN:9780520950412
0520950410

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