Transnational diffusion of Methodist schools between the 19th and 20th centuries

Abstract

SANTOS, Vitor Queiroz. Transnational diffusion of Methodist schools between the 19th and 20th centuries. Cad. Hist. Educ. [online]. 2024, vol.23, e2024-48.  Epub Mar 17, 2025. ISSN 1982-7806.  https://doi.org/10.14393/che-v23-e2024-48.

The aim of this paper is to analyze the foundation of schools carried out by the North American Methodist missionary movement in different regions of the world between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. Using reports, periodicals, and other religious publications, we seek to understand how the transnational missionary dynamics used the technical infrastructure built by capitalist modernity to expand the reach of its educational actions. Identifying the population phenomenon as a field open to interventions, the paper reflects on how the alignment between theology and the Methodist educational conception found in the nascent urban life a privileged space for the schools founding.

Keywords : Methodism; History of Education; Transnational.

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