{"id":1551,"date":"2017-03-09T16:36:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T03:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/?p=1551"},"modified":"2017-03-09T16:36:59","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T03:36:59","slug":"new-book-on-religious-childhoods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/new-book-on-religious-childhoods\/","title":{"rendered":"New Book on Religious Childhoods"},"content":{"rendered":"

Creating Religious Childhoods in Anglo-world and British Colonial Contexts, 1800-1950<\/em> is a new co-edited collection from Centre member, Hugh Morrison<\/span>, and Mary Clare Martin (Greenwich University, UK).\u00a0<\/strong> This new book, published by Routledge<\/a>, features children and religion in colonial society contexts such as New Zealand, and aims to develop greater understanding of religion as a critical element of modern children\u2019s and young people\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Mrs Stevens and her probationers with the hospital baby\u2019, alongside article by Mary Budden, \u2018Almora Christian Families\u2019, in LMS Chronicle, July 1895, p. 182 (from Chapter 1, p. 27)<\/p><\/div>\n

Arguing that religion was an abiding influence (positive, negative and benign) among British-world children throughout the nineteenth century and much of the twentieth, the book places \u2018religion\u2019 at the centre of analysis and discussion, while at the same time positioning the religious factor within a broader social and cultural framework. Essays written by an international grouping of scholars focus on a range of geographical settings: America, Australia, Britain, Canada, Fiji, India, New Zealand, South Africa and the South Pacific. The various contexts within which religion shaped childhood in these settings \u2013 mission fields, churches, families, communities, institutions, camps, schools and youth movements \u2013 are treated as \u2018sites\u2019 in which religion contributed to identity formation, albeit in different ways relating to such factors as empire, nation, gender, race, disability and denomination. Chapters on New Zealand include: an examination of southern Dunedin\u2019s religious identity; children\u2019s religious literature published by A.H. & A.W. Reed; and the ways in which religious identity was conflated with civic qualities of sacrifice and service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Creating Religious Childhoods in Anglo-world and British Colonial Contexts, 1800-1950 is a new co-edited collection from Centre member, Hugh Morrison, and Mary Clare Martin (Greenwich University, UK).\u00a0 This new book, published by Routledge, features children and religion in colonial society […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15374,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17472,165],"tags":[52314,10575,53338,7852,39619,35264,53340,27240,45138,4425,39632,53339],"class_list":["post-1551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-centre-news","category-publications","tag-america","tag-australia","tag-britain","tag-canada","tag-childhood","tag-fiji","tag-hugh-morrison","tag-india","tag-new-zealand","tag-religion","tag-south-africa","tag-south-pacific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/crocc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}