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Paperback. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

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Zustand: New. pp. 224.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Pedagogical Frames and Colonial Difference  1 The Molding of Native Character  2 A Curriculum for Religion  3 An Object Lesson in Colonial Pedagogy  4 The Schoolteacher as Modern Father  5 Teaching Gender in the Colony  6 Mission Schools and Qur?an Schools  Conclusion Pedagogy for Tolerance  Notes  Bibliography  Index    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 Sengupta reveals instead the paradox that the pursuit and adaptation of modern vernacular education mainly imported to the colonies by Protestant missionaries opened up new ways for Indians to reformulate ideas of community along religious lines 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 Thus instruction in science also became a means to instruct the Indian child about the primacy of reason and rationality over superstition Modern education Pedagogy for Religion argues did not secularize religious traditions in India as much as it reformulated definitions of religion and religious community as a part of a larger global process This book will interest students of modern Indian history Empire education as well as gender studies 224 pp.…

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good.

Zustand: New. In English.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 222 pages. 8.80x5.90x0.60 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. Offering a fresh approach to the study of religion and empire, this book challenges a widespread myth of modernity - that Western rule has had a secularizing effect on the non-West - by looking at missionary schools in Bengal.&Uumlber den Autor.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 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 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.…