Drawing on examples from British world expressions of Christianity, this collection further greater understanding of religion as a critical element of modern children s and young people s history. It builds on emerging scholarship that challenges the view that religion had a solely negative impact on nineteenth- and twentieth-century children, or that secularization is the only lens to apply to childhood and religion. Putting forth the argument that religion was an abiding influence among British world children throughout the nineteenth and most of the twentieth centuries, this volume places...