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Parna Sengupta Pedagogy for Religion ISBN 13: 9788125045052

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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. Sengupta reveals instead the paradox that the pursuit and adaption of modern vernacular education, mainly imported to the colonies by Protestant missionaries, opened up new ways for Indians to reformulate ideas of community along religious lines. 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.

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By bringing together the conventionally disparate histories of missionary pedagogy and those of socio-religious reformers in colonial India, Parna Sengupta radically transforms both. Not least of her contributions is her demonstration of the emergence of the fundamental modern category of religion’ as a discrete domain of teaching and experience. Based on extensive research in colonial and vernacular sources, this original and insightful study succeeds in probing new dimensions of nationalism and multiculturalism in India.” Barbara D. Metcalf, Professor of History Emerita, UC Davis

Sengupta's history shows us that religion was a carrier of modernity in British India and that religious pedagogy in an imperial context enabled modern vernaculars of all kinds to flourish. Drawing on Bengali Hindu and Muslim appropriations of evangelical intention, she illustrates not one-way traffic but patterns of reciprocal influence that arguably shaped the end of empire as well as the lineaments of modern nationalism. For those who think that mission history cannot exceed the categories of the colonial state it often served, Pedagogy for Religion is a revelation to be reckoned with.” Antoinette Burton, author of Empire in Question: Reading, Writing and Teaching British Imperialism
In this path-breaking study, Parna Sengupta challenges our usual assumptions about the relationship between western education and secularism in India. Drawing on meticulous research, Sengupta shows how educational reform, whether in the hands of missionaries or local Hindu groups, provided the impetus for the creation of new religious strategies and identities in colonial Bengal. Macaulay will never be read in the same way again.”

Nicholas B. Dirks, author of The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain

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Parna Sengupta is Associate Director of Stanford Introductory Studies at Stanford University.

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  • PublisherOrient Blackswan
  • Publication date2012
  • ISBN 10 8125045058
  • ISBN 13 9788125045052
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages224

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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Pedagogical Frames and Colonial Difference  1 The Molding of Native Character  2 A Curriculum for Religion  3 An Object Lesson in Colonial Pedagogy  4 The Schoolteacher as Modern Father  5 Teaching Gender in the Colony  6 Mission Schools and Qur?an Schools  Conclusion Pedagogy for Tolerance  Notes  Bibliography  Index    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 Sengupta reveals instead the paradox that the pursuit and adaptation of modern vernacular education mainly imported to the colonies by Protestant missionaries opened up new ways for Indians to reformulate ideas of community along religious lines 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 Thus instruction in science also became a means to instruct the Indian child about the primacy of reason and rationality over superstition Modern education Pedagogy for Religion argues did not secularize religious traditions in India as much as it reformulated definitions of religion and religious community as a part of a larger global process This book will interest students of modern Indian history Empire education as well as gender studies 224 pp. Seller Inventory # 101169

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