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Children and
Childhood in World Religions
Price: $62.00
Subtitle: Primary Sources and
Texts
Editors:
Don Browning and
Marcia Bunge
Subject: Religion
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4517-2
Pages: 448 pages
Publication Date: July 2009
Series:
Rutgers
Series in Childhood Studies
Praise for Children and Childhood
in World Religions
"Children and Childhood in World Religions
is not only a convenient resource for scholars, but also a useful
text for courses on children and childhood, as well as for
courses in world religions that seek to delve beneath the standard
beliefs and practices offered in typical survey courses. The richness
of this material and its readability makes it ideal for students and
scholars alike."
—Christine
Gudorf, Florida International University "
"Children and Childhood in World Religions
provides us with key primary sources from the great religious texts
together with helpful scholarly introductions. The book offers an
important supplement to the study of world religions on the topic of
children and childhood—a dimension of human religious formation too
often overlooked." —Paul
Courtright, co-editor of From the
Margins of Hindu Marriage: Essays in Gender, Culture and Religion.
Description:
While children figure prominently in religious traditions,
few books have directly explored the complex relationships between
children and religion. This is the first book to examine the theme of
children in major religions of the world.
Each of six chapters, edited by world-class scholars, focuses on one
religious tradition and includes an introduction and a selection of
primary texts ranging from legal to liturgical and from the ancient to
the contemporary. Through both the scholarly introductions and the
primary sources, this comprehensive volume addresses a range of topics,
from the sanctity of birth to a child’s relationship to evil, showing
that issues regarding children are central to understanding world
religions and raising significant questions about our own conceptions
of children today.
About the Authors:
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.
MARCIA J. BUNGE is a professor of theology and humanities at Valparaiso
University and director of the Child in Religion and Ethics Project.
She is the editor of The Child in
Christian Thought and the coeditor of The Child in the Bible.
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