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Pedagogy for religion : missionary education and the fashioning of Hindus and Muslims in Bengal / / Parna Sengupta



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Autore: Sengupta Parna <1971-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Pedagogy for religion : missionary education and the fashioning of Hindus and Muslims in Bengal / / Parna Sengupta Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (223 p.)
Disciplina: 371.071/25414
Soggetto topico: Education - India - Bengal - History
Hindus - Education - India - Bengal - History
Muslims - Education - India - Bengal - History
Church schools - India - Bengal - History
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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 1930's 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 time, Sengupta concludes that today's Qur'an schools are not, as has been argued, throwbacks to a premodern era. She argues instead that Qur'an schools share a pedagogical frame with today's Christian and Muslim schools, a connection that plays out the long history of this colonial encounter.
Titolo autorizzato: Pedagogy for religion  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9786613278548
9780520950412
0520950410
9781283278546
1283278545
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9911144924803321
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