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Protestant Missionary Children's Lives, C.1870-1950: Empire, Religion and Emotion

Protestant Missionary Children's Lives, C.1870-1950: Empire, Religion and Emotion

Morrison, Hugh

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Imperialism, Book 201

General ChristianityGeneral EducationGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1526156784
ISBN13: 9781526156785
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: Feb 20 2024
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Protestant missionary children were uniquely 'empire citizens' through their experiences of living in empire and in religiously formed contexts. This book examines their lives through the related lenses of parental, institutional and child narratives. To do so it draws on histories of childhood and of emotions, using a range of sources including oral history. It argues that missionary children were doubly shaped by parents' concerns and institutional policy responses. At the same time children saw their own lives as both 'ordinary' and 'complicated'. Literary representations boosted adult narratives. Empire provided a complex space in which these children navigated their way between the expectations of two, if not three, different cultures. The focus is on a range of settings and on the early twentieth century. Therefore, the book offers a complex and comparative picture of missionary children's lives.

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