Creating Religious Childhoods in Anglo-World and British Colonial Contexts, 1800-1950

Hugh Morrison, Mary Clare Martin

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Contours and Issues in Children’s Religious History

Hugh Morrison and Mary Clare Martin

Part One: Missions, Families and Childhood

1. Making missions through (re)making children: Non-kin domestic intimacy in the London Missionary Society’s work in late-nineteenth-century north India

Rhonda Semple

2. Making missionary children: Religion, culture and juvenile deviance

Emily Manktelow

3. Play, missionaries and the cross-cultural encounter in global perspective, 1800-1870

Mary Clare Martin

Part Two: Educational approaches and opportunities

4. Sunday school prizes and books in early-nineteenth-century America

David Greenspoon

5. Methodist childhoods: The education and formation of the young Methodist in Australia and Fiji, 1900-1950

Christine Weir

6. Leadership (with Fun and Games) instead of Domestic Service: Changing African Girlhood in a Johannesburg Mission, 1907-1940

Deborah Gaitskell

Part Three: Literature and Discourses

7. ‘Children of Silence’: Disability, childhood and Christian suffering in nineteenth-century Britain

Esme Cleall

8. ‘Nearly all are supported by children’: Charitable Childhoods in Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Literature for Children in the British World

Margot Hillel

9. Making Kiwi Christians: Children and religion in the House of Reed

Geoffrey Troughton

Part Four: Religious Communities and Citizenship

10. Signs and graces: Children’s experiences of confirmation in New Zealand, 1920s-1950s

Grace Bateman

11. A ‘Religion of the Backwoods’: Religion and the Canadian Boy Scout Movement in the interwar period

James Trepanier

12. Service, sacrifice and responsibility: Religion and Protestant settler childhood in New Zealand and Canada, c. 1860-1940

Hugh Morrison

Notes on Contributors

Bibliography

Index