Pedagogy for Religion: Missionary Education and the by Parna Sengupta

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By Parna Sengupta

delivering a brand new method of the learn of faith and empire, this cutting edge ebook demanding situations a frequent delusion of modernity—that Western rule has had a secularizing influence at the non-West—by having a look heavily at missionary colleges in Bengal. Parna Sengupta examines the interval from 1850 to the Nineteen Thirties and unearths that sleek schooling successfully strengthened where of faith in colonial India. Debates over the mundane points of education, instead of debates among non secular leaders, reworked the typical definitions of what it intended to be a Christian, Hindu, or Muslim. talking to our personal time, Sengupta concludes that today’s Qur’an faculties are usually not, as has been argued, throwbacks to a premodern period. She argues as an alternative that Qur’an faculties percentage a pedagogical body with today’s Christian and Muslim faculties, a connection that performs out the lengthy heritage of this colonial encounter.

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