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    Children and Childhood in World Religions
    Primary Sources and Texts

    Don S. Browning (Edited by), Marcia J. Bunge (Edited by)

    9780813551760

    Paperback / softback, published 9 August 2011

    412 pages
    23.5 x 15.6 x 2.3 cm, 0.626 kg

    "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."
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    "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)

    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.

    Preface and Acknowledgments
    Introduction, by Marcia J. Bunge and Don S. Browning
    Judaism, by Elisheva Baumgarten
    Christianity, by Marcia J. Bunge and John Wall
    Islam, by Avner Giladi
    Hinduism, by Laurie L. Patton
    Buddhism, by Alan Cole
    Confucianism, by Yiqun Zhou
    Notes on Contributors
    Index

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