June 2021: New Publication Series — Leuven Studies in Mission and Modernity

Leuven University Press inaugurates a new series entitled ‘Leuven Studies in Mission and Modernity’ with the publication of Missionary Education: Historical Approaches and Global Perspectives.

 

The LUP’s new series “aims to showcase groundbreaking works on the history of missionaries and missionary organisations during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.” Titles will “steer mission history towards new thematic frontiers by exploring the multiple ways in which missionary operations have affected local societies and cultures around the globe, and how their significance is negotiated in the present.” The series board features Kim Christiaens (KADOC-KU Leuven), Carine Dujardin (KADOC-KU Leuven), Idesbald Goddeeris (KU Leuven, Faculty of Arts), Jonas Van Mulder (KADOC-KU Leuven), Dries Vanysacker (KU Leuven, Theology and Religious Studies), and Pieter Verstraete (KU Leuven, Psychology and Educational Sciences).

 

A table of contents for the first volume of this new series appears below. Missionary Education: Historical Approaches and Global Perspectives is edited by Kim Christiaens, Idesbald Goddeeris, and Pieter Verstraete and features contributions by fifteen scholars. The essays focus on the educational work of missionaries and “elaborate on Protestantism as well as Catholicism, work with cases from the 18th to the 21st century, and cover different colonial empires in Asia and Africa.” The publisher promises that the book “introduces new angles, such as gender, the agency of the local population, and the perspective of the child.”

 

Missionary Education: Historical Approaches and Global Perspectives

Table of Contents

Mission and Education. An Introduction
— Kim Christiaens, Idesbald Goddeeris, and Pieter Verstraete

 

PART I DILEMMAS AND TRANSITIONS

The Educational Turn in Catholic Missionary Policies and Practices. Belgian Franciscans in China, 1872-1949
— Carine Dujardin

Fashioning a Catholic Javanese Elite. The Catholic Mission and Colonial Education in Central Java, 1904-1942
— Maaike Derksen

The Postcolonial Expansion of a Mission. Jesuit Education in Ranchi, India, after 1950
— Aditi Athreya, Rinald D’Souza, and Idesbald Goddeeris

The Jesuit Mission and Business Education in Contemporary India. The Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneshwar
— Lourens van Haaften

 

PART II COLLABORATION AND COMPETITION

The Colonial State, Protestant Missionaries and Indian Education, 1790-1858
— Parimala V. Rao

Tending Community and Country. Jesuit Colleges in Colonial India, 1835-1902
— Joseph Bara

Breaking the Colour Bar? Missionary Education in Australasian Colonies before World War II
— Gwendal Rannou

Forming Elites of the Church and of the Nation. Lutheran Resistance to Protestant Secondary Education in Madagascar in the 1920s and 1930s
— Ellen Vea Rosnes

 

PART III RELIGION AND SOCIETY

The Africa Inland Mission and the Education for Girls among the Kipsigis of the Kericho and Bomet Counties, Kenya, 1900-1945
— Mary Chepkemoi

Femininity and Everyday Spaces at St. Stephen’s Girls’ College in Hong Kong, 1921-1941
— Meng Wang

Melanesian Children as European Wards. Representation and ‘Redemption’ of Colonial Children in Late-Nineteenth-Century Netherlands
— Marleen Reichgelt

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