Suffer the little children : urban violence and sacred space / edited by Kay A. Read and Isabel L. Wollaston.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Read, Kay Almere, 1944-

Wollaston, Isabel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Death--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Children.

Violent deaths--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Violent deaths.

Sacred space.

Holy Cross.

Christianity.

Physical Description:

x, 201 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : University of Birmingham Press, 2001.

Contents:

Writing and Rewriting the Cross / Isabel L. Wollaston 1

Part I. The Children's Cross: Origins, Issues, Reactions and Reflections

Reflections on the Children's Cross at St James Cathedral / Janet Campbell 19

When Children are Killed, What Do We Do? One Community's Response / James Halstead, Jule D. Ward 37

Part II. Philosophical and Theological Reflections

Waylaying the Way of the Cross: A Dilemma for Practical Theology / Dennis P. McCann 61

The Ambiguity and Promise of an Urban 'Cross-Road' / Gareth Jones 73

The Violated Body and the Nausea of Memory / Charles R. Strain 85

Memory, Memorials and Redemption / Denys Turner 103

Part III. Memorializing Death and Traumatic Pasts

Three Spaces Marking Child Sacrifice / Kay A. Read 121

Celebrating the Massacre of Innocence / Martin D. Stringer 143

Black Memory: Commemorating the Sacred and the Traumatic in the African Diaspora / Emmanuel Lartey 157

Memorializing Collective Tragedy in Public Space / Frida Kerner Furman, Roy S. Furman 169.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1902459113

OCLC:

47193148