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creators_name: Alderson, P
title: Children's rights in research about religion and spirituality
ispublished: pub
divisions: A01
divisions: B16
divisions: B14
divisions: J81
keywords: children's religion, children's spirituality, rights-respecting, research methods, secular influences, religious education
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abstract: This chapter reviews approaches that can help to deepen our understanding of children's religion and spirituality. The approaches include ways to use rights-respecting research methods and theories, to see children as real persons, and to connect their lives to “adult worlds” by analyzing how politics, economics, and other social structures intersect with religion. These approaches also draw on the profound insights of earlier sociologists and philosophers. Besides attending to the meaning in children's own accounts, researchers need to examine secular influences on today's faiths and religious education, and to assess these against the founding precepts that religions tend to share.
date: 2011-12-01
date_type: published
publisher: NYU Press
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814776469.003.0004
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1106498
doi: 10.18574/nyu/9780814776469.003.0004
isbn_13: 9780814776469
lyricists_name: Alderson, Priscilla
lyricists_id: DPALD60
actors_name: Alderson, Priscilla
actors_id: DPALD60
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
pagerange: 50-64
isbn: 0814776469
book_title: The Study of Children in Religions: A Methods Handbook
editors_name: Ridgely, Susan B
citation:        Alderson, P;      (2011)    Children's rights in research about religion and spirituality.                    In: Ridgely, Susan B, (ed.) The Study of Children in Religions: A Methods Handbook. (pp. 50-64).   NYU Press       Green open access   
 
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