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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sengupta, Parna, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--India--Bengal--History.

Education.

Hindus--Education--India--Bengal--History.

Hindus.

Muslims--Education--India--Bengal--History.

Muslims.

Church schools--India--Bengal--History.

Church schools.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613278548

9780520950412

0520950410

9781283278546

1283278545

OCLC:

739107716