Children, Adults, and Shared Responsibilities: Jewish, Christian and Muslim PerspectivesMarcia J. Bunge 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. Marcia J. Bunge is Professor of Humanities and Theology at Christ College, the Honors College of Valparaiso University (Indiana); Director of the Child in Religion and Ethics Project; and the University's W.C. Dickmeyer Professor. She is the translator and editor of selected texts by J. G. Herder entitled Against Pure Reason: Writings on History, Language, and Religion (1993). She has also edited and contributed to The Child in Christian Thought (2001); The Child in the Bible (2008, co-edited with Terence Fretheim and Beverly Roberts Gaventa); and Children and Childhood in World Religions: Primary Sources and Texts (2009, co-edited with Don S. Browning). |
Contents
CENTRAL BELIEFS AND PRACTICES | 19 |
Childrens spirituality in the Jewish narrative tradition | 39 |
themes and resources | 59 |
Catholic social | 79 |
a Quranic perspective | 99 |
classical perspectives | 119 |
how childhood should transform | 135 |
Christian ethical reflection | 171 |
Will I have Jewish grandchildren? Cultural | 202 |
educating Muslim children | 219 |
biblical themes Christian | 237 |
a Jewish ethics of foster care in | 256 |
Sex Marriage and Family in the World Religions 2006 | 276 |
BUNGE is Professor of Humanities and Theology at Christ | 291 |
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