The given child : the religions' contributions to children's citizenship

• TeilnehmendeR: Nayar, Usha S; Wyller, Trygve
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Research in contemporary religion The given child
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Table of Contents

The other child as gift? A historical challenge for religions in late modernity / Trygve Wyller, Usha S. Nayar -- The affective citizen : childhood and belonging in the contemporary era / Irene Rizzini, Udi Mandel Butler -- Beyond children as agents or victims : reexamining children's paradoxical strengths and vulnerabilities with resources from Christian theologies of childhood and child theologies / Marcia J. Bunge -- Submission and dissent : some observations on children's rights within the Islamic edifice / Alfons H. Teipen -- Construction of childhood, interactions and inclusions : growing up in a family with Hindu values orientation / Usha S. Nayar -- The child 'as a child' : a theological-ethical investigation of the concrete and relational giving of a child / Annemie Dillen -- Rethinking human rights in light of children / John Wall -- The sense of belonging : the importance of child participation in the ritual life for the recreation of the culture of the indigenous peoples / Yolanda Corona, Carlos Pérez -- The givenness of intentionality : Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of the body as a way to understand the spirituality of children / Marta Maria Espeseth -- Initiation to adulthood : the challenge of modernity, the paradox of ritual, and the gifts of confirmation in a Norwegian context / Jone Salomonsen -- They owe us nothing : the spirituality of givenness and the recognition of children / Trygyve Wyller -- The child as gifts / John M. Hull.