Protestant Missionary Children's Lives, C.1870-1950: Empire, Religion and Emotion
By (Author) Hugh Morrison
Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press
20th February 2024
United Kingdom
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Protestantism and Protestant Churches
History of education
History of religion
Social and cultural history
266.0083
Hardback
272
Width 156mm, Height 234mm, Spine 16mm
551g
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 childrens lives.
Hugh Morrison is Associate Professor of Education at the University of Otago