Description
Book SynopsisThrough 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.
Trade Review"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 *
Table of ContentsPreface 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
