Children, adults, and shared responsibilities : Jewish, Christian, and Muslim perspectives / edited by Marcia J. Bunge.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bunge, Marcia J. (Marcia JoAnn), 1954- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Conduct of life.

Children.

Children--Religious aspects.

Children--Religious life.

Children and adults.

Conduct of life.

Children's rights--Religious aspects.

Children's rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 326 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Children, Adults, & Shared Responsibilities

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of essays by Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scholars underscores the significance of sustained and serious ethical, inter-religious, and interdisciplinary reflection on children. Essays in the first half of the volume discuss fundamental beliefs and practices within the religious traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam regarding children, adult obligations to them, and a child's own obligations to others. The second half of the volume focuses on selected contemporary challenges regarding children and faithful responses to them. Marcia J. Bunge brings together scholars from various disciplines and diverse strands within these three religious traditions, representing several views on essential questions about the nature and status of children and adult-child relationships and responsibilities. The volume not only contributes to intellectual inquiry regarding children in the specific areas of ethics, religious studies, children's rights, and childhood studies, but also provides resources for child advocates, religious leaders, educators, and those engaged in inter-religious dialogue.

Contents:

The concept of the child embedded in Jewish law / Elliot N. Dorff

Children's spirituality in the Jewish narrative tradition / Sandy Eisenberg Sasso

Christian understandings of children: central biblical themes and resources / Marcia J. Bunge

Human dignity and social responsibility: Catholic social thought on children / William Werpehowski

Islam, children, and modernity: a Quʼranic perspective / Farid Esack

Muslim youth and religious identity: classical perspectives and contemporary challenges / Marcia Hermansen

Imagining childism: how childhood should transform religious ethics / John Wall

Talking about childhood and engaging with children: a Christian perspective on interfaith dialogue / Nelly van Doorn-Harder

Work, labor, and chores: Christian ethical reflection on children and vocation / Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore

Honor your father and your mother: a Christian perspective in dialogue with contemporary psychological theories / Annemie Dillen

Will I have Jewish grandchildren? Cultural transmission and ethical and religious concerns among ethnoreligious minorities / Sylvia Barack Fishman

Linking past and present: educating Muslim children in diverse cultural contexts / Lily Zakiyah Munir and Azim Nanji

Orphans and adoption: biblical themes, Christian initiatives, and contemporary ethical concerns / Keith Graber Miller

Second-hand children: a Jewish ethics of foster care in an age of desire / Lauri Zoloth

Christianity's mixed contributions to children's rights: traditional teachings, modern doubts / Don S. Browning and John Witte, Jr.

Children's rights in modern Islamic and international law: changes in Muslim moral imaginaries / Ebrahim Moosa.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-56423-4

1-139-88738-6

1-139-54942-1

1-139-55192-2

1-139-55563-4

0-511-89461-9

1-139-55438-7

1-283-63827-4

1-139-55067-5

OCLC:

812174050