Missionaries and modernity : education in the British Empire, 1830-1910 / Felicity Jensz.

Author: Jensz, Felicity, author.

ImprintManchester : Manchester University Press, 2022.

Imprint2022

Descriptionvii, 278 pages ; 25 cm.

Note:Introduction: entangled histories of missionary education -- 'Liberal and comprehensive' education: the Negro Education Grant and Nonconforming missionary societies in the 1830s -- 'The blessings of civilization': the Select Committee on Aborigines (British Settlements) -- Female education and the Liverpool Missionary Conference of 1860 -- Sustaining and secularising mission schools -- Missionary lessons for Secular States: the Edinburgh World Missionary Conference, 1910 -- Conclusion.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-269) and index.

Note:This book examines the changing landscape of evangelical British missionary education in the British Empire of the nineteenth century. It argues that over the course of the nineteenth century many aspects of mission schools were secularised, leading missionary societies to question the ambivalent legacy of mission schools.

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