The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion and Childhood

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Anna Strhan (University of Kent, UK) Stephen G. Parker (University of Warwick, UK)

The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion and Childhood

Anna Strhan (University of Kent, UK), Stephen G. Parker (University of Warwick, UK), Susan Ridgely (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, USA)

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Bloomsbury Academic
26 January 2017

Religious issues & debates; Age groups: children

From recent sex abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church, to arguments about faith schools and religious indoctrination, this volume considers the interconnection between the actual lives of children and the position of children as placeholders for the future. Childhood has often been a particular site of struggle for negotiating the location of religion in public and everyday social life, and children’s involvement and non-involvement in religion raises strong feelings because they represent the future of religious and secular communities, even of society itself. The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion and Childhood provides a rich resource for students and scholars of this interdisciplinary field, and addresses wider questions about the distinctiveness of childhood and its religious dimensions in historical and contemporary perspective.

Divided into five thematic parts, the volume provides classic, contemporary, and specially commissioned readings from a range of perspectives, including the sociological, anthropological, historical, and theological. Case studies range from Augustine’s description of childhood in Confessions, the psychology of religion and childhood, to religion in children’s literature, religious education, and Qur’anic schools.

- Religious traditions covered include Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism, in the UK and Europe, USA, Latin America and Africa

- An introduction situates each thematic part, and each reading is contextualised by the editors

- Guidance on further reading and study questions are provided on the book’s webpage

Edited by: Anna Strhan (University of Kent UK), Stephen G. Parker (University of Warwick, UK), Susan Ridgely (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, USA)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 169mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 848g
ISBN: 9781474251105
ISBN 10: 1474251102
Pages: 408
Publication Date: 26 January 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Anna Strhan is a Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Kent, UK Stephen Parker is Professor of the History of Religion and Education at the University of Worcester, UK Susan Ridgely is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Reviews for The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion and Childhood

This book is the carefully-prepared, richly-outfitted herald of a whole new field of study. It which will change the way we look at religion, children, our societies and ourselves. * Linda Woodhead, Professor of Sociology of Religion, Lancaster University, UK * Bringing together a range of classic and contemporary work into a coherent and well-structured format, The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion and Childhood is an essential text for students and researchers alike. Its substantive breadth and intellectual depth provide much needed consolidation for this important but often neglected field of study. * Peter Hemming, Lecturer in Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK * An excellent collection of primary sources with commentary [that] fills an important gap between texts about RE pedagogy and scholarly studies of religion. * David Lundie, University of St Mark & St John, UK *