With research based on extensive primary sources, the author examines the activities of the Methodist mission in Peru, in particular its educational work, within the Peruvian socioeconomic formation and its ideological and intellectual changes. Yet her study goes beyond Methodist boundaries: Social Gospel doctrine and educational theory, which link American Progressivism (especially John Dewey’s pedagogical ideas) with Christianity, are also treated at an interdenominational level.
The book contends that Methodist schools constituted an educational system of their own within a socioeconomic formation of uneven character, a society where an imperialist presence was interwoven with pre-capitalist as well as local incipient capitalist forms. The author’s analysis of the political dimension of missionary work?from the quest for religious freedom to the attempt to exert influence on social movements?leads her to consider the relationships among APRA leaders, the missionaries, and the interdenominational Committee on Cooperation in Latin America. Bruno-Jofré argues that Social Gospel doctrines, although couched in reformist language, were ultimately a vehicle of North American theology.
This book presents a refreshingly wide perspective on the development of education in the Third World as affected by missionary bodies from the First World.
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Table of Contents
- Table of contents 8
- List of Illustrations 10
- Introduction and Acknowledgments 12
- Chapter I. Protestantism in Peru During the Nineteenth Century 16
- The Introduction of the Lancasterian System 16
- James Diego Thomson and the Lancasterian System 19
- Missionary Efforts in the Late 1800s 25
- References 31
- Chapter II. The Establishment of the Methodist Episcopal Church 40
- Socio-Economic and Political Conditions, Late Nineteenth/Early Twentieth Centuries 40
- The Foundation of the Methodist Church and Mission 44
- Protestantism's Place in the Late Eighteenth-Century Ideological and Intellectual Structure 46
- Conclusion 49
- References 50
- Chapter III. Social Gospel and the Mission 56
- Social Gospel Doctrines, the American Methodist Church, and the Methodist Mission 56
- The Latin American Missionary Field and the Committee on Cooperation in Latin America 61
- The Panama and Montevideo Congresses 65
- Peruvian Methodist Literature and Doctrinal Issues 70
- Interdenominational Co-operation in Peru 76
- Progressive Christianity in the Context of Intellectual and Ideological Changes, 1900-1930 78
- The Organization of the Methodist Church and Its Place Among Other Evangelical Churches 83
- Conclusion 90
- References 91
- Chapter IV. Methodists, Religious Freedom, and the Oncenio 101
- The Achievement of Religious Freedom 101
- The Attempt to Consecrate Peru to the Sacred Heart 104
- The Oncenio of Leguia: 1919-1930 104
- Tracing the Popular Uprising of May 1923 105
- Victor Raul Haya de la Torre and Protestant Missionaries in Peru 109
- The Methodist Mission, the American Embassy, and Leguia 113
- Methodists and the Anglo-American Community 115
- The Mission at the American Mining Enclaves 117
- Methodists and the Indians 120
- Conclusion 122
- References 123
- Chapter V. The Public School System, 1895-1930 133
- Issues in Educational Policies 133
- The Implementation of a Public Educational Policy 136
- References 143
- Chapter VI. Methodist Schools 149
- Methodist Educational Ideas 149
- The Educational Policy from an Interdenominational Perspective 154
- The Methodist Educational Policy 157
- The Location and Programs of the Methodist Schools 157
- Methodist Schools and Peruvian Official Regulations 159
- Buildings and Financial Resources 161
- Teaching Staff 165
- Curriculum 166
- Methodist Schools and Social Class 175
- Women's Education 183
- Conclusion 189
- References 192
- Bibliography 208
- Index 230
- A 230
- B 230
- C 231
- D 232
- E 232
- F 232
- G 233
- H 233
- I 233
- J 233
- K 233
- L 234
- M 234
- N 235
- O 235
- P 235
- Q 236
- R 236
- S 236
- T 237
- U 237
- V 237
- W 238
- Y 238
- Z 238
