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Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the
World's Religious Traditions provides a forum for prominent
religious scholars to examine the state of religious knowledge and
theological reflection on spiritual development in childhood and
adolescence. Featuring essays from thinkers representing the
world's major religious traditions, the book introduces new voices,
challenges assumptions, raises new questions, and broadens the base
of knowledge and investment in this important domain of life. It
specifically and intentionally focuses on theological and
philosophical perspectives from within religious traditions,
creating space for the religious traditions to find their voices.
Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality is firmly grounded in
the language and priorities of religious studies, and helps
stimulate explorations of whether and how religious communities are
tapping their own wisdom and strengths in nurturing today's young
people in a complex and changing world. Nurturing Child and
Adolescent Spirituality will set the stage for new waves of
scholarship and dialogue within and across traditions, disciplines,
and cultures that will enrich understanding and strengthen how the
world's religious traditions, and others, understand and cultivate
the spiritual lives of children and adolescents around the globe.
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. The religions
discussed in this book include: Judaism, Christianity, Islam,
Hinduism, Buddhism, and, Confucianism.
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The Child in the Bible (Paperback)
Marcia J. Bunge, Terence E. Fretheim, Beverly Roberts Gaventa
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In this volume nineteen biblical scholars collaborate to provide an
informed and focused treatment of biblical perspectives on children
and childhood. Looking at the Bible through the "lens" of the child
exposes new aspects of biblical texts and themes. Some of the
authors focus on selected biblical texts -- Genesis, Proverbs,
Mark, and more -- while others examine such biblical themes as
training and disciplining, children and the image of God, the
metaphor of Israel as a child, and so on. In discussing a vast
array of themes and questions, the chapters also invite readers to
reconsider the roles that children can or should play in religious
communities today.
This volume offers the first major survey of the history of
Christian thought on children. Each chapter, written by an expert
in the field, discusses the particular perspectives on children
held by influential theologians and Christian movements throughout
church history, asking what resources they can contribute to a
sound contemporary view of childhood and child-rearing. Intended
for all readers, this needed book will be a valuable resource for
laying the foundation for a new, more meaningful Christian view of
childhood today. Contributors: Clarissa W. Atkinson Margaret
Bendroth Catherine Brekus Marcia J. Bunge Dawn DeVries Richard P.
Heitzenrater Mary Ann Hinsdale Judith Gundry-Volf Vigen Guroian
Keith Graber Miller Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore Barbara Pitkin Marcia
Y. Riggs Martha Ellen Stortz Jane E. Strohl Cristina L. H. Traina
William Werpehowski
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.
This collection of essays by Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scholars
underscores the significance of sustained and serious ethical,
inter-religious, and interdisciplinary reflection on children.
Essays in the first half of the volume discuss fundamental beliefs
and practices within the religious traditions of Judaism,
Christianity and Islam regarding children, adult obligations to
them, and a child's own obligations to others. The second half of
the volume focuses on selected contemporary challenges regarding
children and faithful responses to them. Marcia J. Bunge brings
together scholars from various disciplines and diverse strands
within these three religious traditions, representing several views
on essential questions about the nature and status of children and
adult-child relationships and responsibilities. The volume not only
contributes to intellectual inquiry regarding children in the
specific areas of ethics, religious studies, children's rights, and
childhood studies, but also provides resources for child advocates,
religious leaders, educators, and those engaged in inter-religious
dialogue. Marcia J. Bunge is Professor of Humanities and Theology
at Christ College, the Honors College of Valparaiso University
(Indiana); Director of the Child in Religion and Ethics Project;
and the University's W.C. Dickmeyer Professor. She is the
translator and editor of selected texts by J. G. Herder entitled
Against Pure Reason: Writings on History, Language, and Religion
(1993). She has also edited and contributed to The Child in
Christian Thought (2001); The Child in the Bible (2008, co-edited
with Terence Fretheim and Beverly Roberts Gaventa); and Children
and Childhood in World Religions: Primary Sources and Texts (2009,
co-edited with Don S. Browning).
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