Table of contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction and Acknowledgments; Chapter I. Protestantism in Peru During the Nineteenth Century; Chapter II. The Establishment of the Methodist Episcopal Church; Chapter III. Social Gospel and the Mission; Chapter IV. Methodists, Religious Freedom, and the Oncenio; Chapter V. The Public School System, 1895-1930; Chapter VI. Methodist Schools; Bibliography; Index
Summary
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
