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‘It is well with the child’: Changing Views on Protestant Missionary Children's Health, 1870s–1930s

Studies in church history, 2022-06, Vol.58, p.306-329 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Ecclesiastical History Society ;ISSN: 0424-2084 ;EISSN: 2059-0644 ;DOI: 10.1017/stc.2022.15

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  • Title:
    ‘It is well with the child’: Changing Views on Protestant Missionary Children's Health, 1870s–1930s
  • Author: Morrison, Hugh
  • Subjects: Children & youth ; Childrens health ; Missionaries
  • Is Part Of: Studies in church history, 2022-06, Vol.58, p.306-329
  • Description: Esme Cleall observes that for nineteenth-century British missionary families ill-health was constructed as being ‘reflexive of and contributory to a specifically missionary identity’. This article argues that while this was a persistent theme, a new and significantly different discourse emerged emphasizing missionary families’ health. Children were central to this discursive shift. The article focuses on missionary children's health, using selected Anglo-American cases. There was an uneasy overlap of religiously motivated rhetoric that still expected illness and death to be part of missionary childhood experience, and a professionalized discourse that redefined missionary families as sites of health and well-being. This culminated in medical and academic literature within religious and missionary circles that constructed missionaries’ children as a new category. Thus churches responded both to the development of the medical profession and to the development of modern child-centred thinking and practices, in the process developing a new missiological or theological response to childhood.
  • Publisher: London: Cambridge University Press
  • Language: English;French
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0424-2084
    EISSN: 2059-0644
    DOI: 10.1017/stc.2022.15
  • Source: AUTh Library subscriptions: ProQuest Central
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