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Don S. Browning, Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore - Children and Childhood in American Religions, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

Children and Childhood in American Religions

Av Don S. Browning, Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore

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Whether First Communion or bar mitzvah, religious traditions play a central role in the lives of many American children. In this collection of essays, leading scholars reveal for the first time how various religions interpret, reconstruct, and mediate their traditions to help guide children and their parents in navigating the opportunities and challenges of American life. The book examines ten religions, among other topics:How the Catholic Church confronts the tension between its teachings about children and actual practicThe Oglala Lakota's struggle to preserve their spiritual traditionThe impact of modernity on HinduismOnly by discussing the unique challenges faced by all religions, and their followers, can we take the first step toward a greater understanding for all of us.
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DON S. BROWNING is a professor emeritus at the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Christian Ethics and Moral Psychologies and American Religions and the Family: How Faith Traditions Cope with Modernization and Democracy.BONNIE J. MILLER-McLEMORE is a professor of pastoral theology and counseling at the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Let the Children Come: Reimaging Childhood from a Christian Perspective and In the Midst of Chaos: Care of Children as Religious Practice.

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"The collection goes far in filling a major gap in readers' understanding of religion in the US. Recommended." (Choice) "This volume fills a gap in the literature on childhood studies [and] will stand as an indispensible source for multiple approaches to questions of children, childhood, and religion in America." (Church History) "This is a fascinating collection of essays. It gives the reader great insight into a critical aspect of contemporary American religious life through its focus on children and childhood."(INTAMS Review - Journal for the Study of Marriage and Spirituality) "The collection goes far in filling a major gap in readers' understanding of religion in the US. Recommended." (Choice) "The collection goes far in filling a major gap in readers' understanding of religion in the US. Recommended." (Choice) "This volume fills a gap in the literature on childhood studies [and] will stand as an indispensible source for multiple approaches to questions of children, childhood, and religion in America." (Church History) "This volume fills a gap in the literature on childhood studies [and] will stand as an indispensible source for multiple approaches to questions of children, childhood, and religion in America." (Church History) "This is a fascinating collection of essays. It gives the reader great insight into a critical aspect of contemporary American religious life through its focus on children and childhood."(INTAMS Review - Journal for the Study of Marriage and Spirituality) "This is a fascinating collection of essays. It gives the reader great insight into a critical aspect of contemporary American religious life through its focus on children and childhood."(INTAMS Review - Journal for the Study of Marriage and Spirituality)

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