Pedagogy for Religion
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A01=Parna Sengupta
Author_Parna Sengupta
bengal
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christianity
colonial india
colonialism
comparative religion
contemporary perspective
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global christianity
hinduism
hindus
historical
imperialism
islam
missionaries
missionary schools
modern education
modernization
muslims
nonfiction
pedagogical
political
quran schools
religious education
religious historians
religious leaders
religious scholars
religious studies
retrospective
secularization
western perspective
Product details
- ISBN 9780520268319
- Weight: 318g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 13 Aug 2011
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 1930s 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.
Parna Sengupta is Associate Director of Stanford Introductory Studies at Stanford University.
