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Children's book awards have mushroomed since the early
twentieth-century and especially since the 1960s, when literary
prizing became a favored strategy for both commercial promotion and
canon-making. There are over 300 awards for English-language titles
alone, but despite the profound impact of children's book awards,
scholars have paid relatively little attention to them. This book
is the first scholarly volume devoted to the analysis of Anglophone
children's book awards in historical and cultural context. With
attention to both political and aesthetic concerns, the book offers
original and diverse scholarship on prizing practices and their
consequences in Australia, Canada, and especially the United
States. Contributors offer both case studies of particular awards
and analysis of broader trends in literary evaluation and
elevation, drawing on theoretical work on canonization and cultural
capital. Sections interrogate the complex and often unconscious
ideological work of prizing, the ongoing tension between formalist
awards and so-called identity-based awards - all the more urgent in
light of the "We Need Diverse Books" campaign - the ever-morphing
forms and parameters of prizing, and scholarly practices of
prizing. Among the many awards discussed are the Pura Belpre Medal,
the Inky Awards, the Canada Governor General Literary Award, the
Printz Award, the Best Animated Feature Oscar, the Phoenix Award,
and the John Newbery Medal, giving due attention to prizes for
fiction as well as for non-fiction, poetry, and film. This volume
will interest scholars in literary and cultural studies, social
history, book history, sociology, education, library and
information science, and anyone concerned with children's
literature.
Children's book awards have mushroomed since the early
twentieth-century and especially since the 1960s, when literary
prizing became a favored strategy for both commercial promotion and
canon-making. There are over 300 awards for English-language titles
alone, but despite the profound impact of children's book awards,
scholars have paid relatively little attention to them. This book
is the first scholarly volume devoted to the analysis of Anglophone
children's book awards in historical and cultural context. With
attention to both political and aesthetic concerns, the book offers
original and diverse scholarship on prizing practices and their
consequences in Australia, Canada, and especially the United
States. Contributors offer both case studies of particular awards
and analysis of broader trends in literary evaluation and
elevation, drawing on theoretical work on canonization and cultural
capital. Sections interrogate the complex and often unconscious
ideological work of prizing, the ongoing tension between formalist
awards and so-called identity-based awards - all the more urgent in
light of the "We Need Diverse Books" campaign - the ever-morphing
forms and parameters of prizing, and scholarly practices of
prizing. Among the many awards discussed are the Pura Belpre Medal,
the Inky Awards, the Canada Governor General Literary Award, the
Printz Award, the Best Animated Feature Oscar, the Phoenix Award,
and the John Newbery Medal, giving due attention to prizes for
fiction as well as for non-fiction, poetry, and film. This volume
will interest scholars in literary and cultural studies, social
history, book history, sociology, education, library and
information science, and anyone concerned with children's
literature.
This book is about ecumenism, from a Catholic point of view. The
first part, chapters 1 and 2, describe the history of divisions
within the Church, as well as of the efforts to bring about
Christian unity. The second part examines Ecumenism from a
systematic theological perspective. This first part takes into
account the different factors that led to definitive ruptures
within the Church, which usually are not only theological. The text
gives useful information about what happened after the respective
divisions as well as about the various attempts to restore unity,
the development of the Ecumenical Movement in the 20th Century, and
the current situation of ecumenical dialogue within the Catholic
Church. While offering insight into the sad history that has led to
the present disunity, this work also highlights the way Christians
have sought to bring to fulfill the petition of Christ that his
disciples might be one, as He and the Father are one. The second
part?chapters three, four and five?offers a systematic theological
analysis of unity in the Church, from the point of view of dogmatic
theology. We find here an explanation of the Catholic concept of
ecumenism, of how Catholic theology understands the unity of the
Church, and, finally, of the Catholic principles which sustain the
efforts for regaining unity in the Church. The Second Vatican
Council, and particularly the Constitution Lumen gentium and the
Decree Unitatis redintegratio, are at the foundation of these
reflections. At the same time, since the theology of the Church and
the life of the Church are intimately connected, there is a
profound link between this dogmatic section and the earlier
historical section. The last chapter, about the practice of
ecumenism, is also written from a theological perspective, but with
more links with life and spirituality. The chapter recalls that
ecumenism can never simply remain a set of theological principles,
but rather inspires an attitude and action in charity which are
essential to the Christian life.
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