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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Don S. Browning , Marcia J. BungePublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Edition: First Paperback Edition Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.626kg ISBN: 9780813551760ISBN 10: 0813551765 Pages: 412 Publication Date: 09 August 2011 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , General , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsChildren andChildhood 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 coeditor of From the Margins of Hindu Marriage All of the world's religious traditions speak about childhood and children, yet surprisingly, childhood has not always been a central focus for scholarly reflection on religion. This volume seeks to redress this oversight by presenting primary sources from six of the world's major religious traditions. This is an interesting work on an important topic that has not received sufficient attention. Recommended. -- Choice 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 coeditor of From the Margins of Hindu Marriage 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 coeditor of From the Margins of Hindu Marriage 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. <br><br>--Paul Courtright coeditor of From the Margins of Hindu Marriage All of the world's religious traditions speak about childhood and children, yet surprisingly, childhood has not always been a central focus for scholarly reflection on religion. This volume seeks to redress this oversight by presenting primary sources from six of the world's major religious traditions. This is an interesting work on an important topic that has not received sufficient attention. Recommended. --Choice 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 coeditor of From the Margins of Hindu Marriage Author InformationDON S. BROWNING was a professor emeritus at the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Christian Ethics and Moral Psychologies and coeditor of American Religions and the Family: How Faith Traditions Cope with Modernization and Democracy. With Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore, Browning also edited Children and Childhood in American Religions. MARCIA J. BUNGE is 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 inChristian Thought and coeditor of The Child in the Bible. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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