The Study of Children in Religions : A Methods Handbook


Susan B. Ridgely
Bok Engelsk 2011 · Electronic books.
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New York : : NYU Press, , 2011.
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1 online resource (326 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. A CHILDIST APPROACH TO THEORY AND HISTORY; 1 Agency, Voice, and Maturity in Children's Religious and Spiritual Development; 2 Religion and Youth in American Culture; 3 Children's Rights in Research about Religion and Spirituality; II. USING ETHNOGRAPHY TO TALK WITH CONTEMPORARY CHILDREN; 4 Navigating the Institutional Review Board (IRB) for Child-Directed Qualitative Research; 5 "Maybe the Picture Will Tell You": Methods for Hearing Children's Perspectives on Religion; 6 Boundary and Identity Work among Hare Krishna Children. - 7 Playing with Fire (and Water, Earth, and Air): Ritual Flunecy and Improvisation among Contemporary Pagan Children8 "La Virgen, She Watches over Us": What Cholos and Cholas Can Teach Us about Researching and Writing about Religion; III. STUDYING CHILDREN IN SCHOOLS; 9 Going through the Motions of Ritual: Exploring the "as if " Quality of Religious Sociality in Faith-Based Schools; 10 Catholic Children's Experiences of Scripture and the Sacrament of Reconciliation through Catechesis of the Good Shepherd; 11 Religion and Youth Identity in Postwar Bosnia Herzegovina. - BibliographyAbout the Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y. - IV. USING ADULT-GENERATED MATERIAL ABOUT CHILDREN: SOURCES AND METHODS FOR ACCESSING CHILDREN'S VOICES FROM THE PAST AND TODAY12 The Battle for the Toy Box: Marketing and Play in the Development of Children's Religious Identities; 13 "God made this fire for our comfort": Puritan Children's Literature in Context; 14 Childhood in the Land of Hope: Black Children and Religion in Chicago, 1920-1945; 15 The Baptism of a Cheyenne Girl; 16 Examining Agency, Discourses of Destiny, and Creative Power in the Biography of a Tibetan Child Tertön; 17 Memory Work and Trauma in Research on Children. - Research in religious studies has traditionally focused on adult subjects since working with children presents significantly more challenges to the researcher, such as getting the research protocol passed by the Internal Review Board, obtaining permission from parents and schools, and figuring out how to make sense of young worldviews. The Study of Children in Religions provides scholars with a comprehensive source to assist them in addressing many of the issues that often stop researchers from pursuing projects involving children. This handbook offers a broad range of methodological and conce
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