The given child : the religions' contributions to children's citizenship
"In every part of the world children lack cultural and social citizenship. They seem to be excluded from the basic standards of universal human rights. This is scandalous both morally and politically. Wyller, Nayar and their internationally renowned authors ask how to improve this situation. They agree that the world can expect religion to contribute to an improvement of children's rights and citizenship worldwide. Read this volume in order to find out how"--Publisher description
Print Book, English, ©2007
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, ©2007
Kongress Oslo 2005
199 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9783525604366, 352560436X
191828932
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
Developed from sessions at the Childhoods 2005 conference, held in Oslo, Norway