3 Children’s Rights in Research about Religion and Spirituality

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Introduction 1
6. I. A CHILDIST APPROACH TO THEORY AND HISTORY
7. 1 Agency, Voice, and Maturity in Children’s Religious and Spiritual Development 19
8. 2 Religion and Youth in American Culture 33
9. 3 Children’s Rights in Research about Religion and Spirituality 50
10. II . USING ETHNOGRAPHY TO TALK WITH CONTEMPORARY CHILDREN
11. 4 Navigating the Institutional Review Board (IRB) for Child-Directed Qualitative Research 67
12. 5 “Maybe the Picture Will Tell You” 80
13. 6 Boundary and Identity Work among Hare Krishna Children 95
14. 7 Playing with Fire (and Water, Earth, and Air) 108
15. 8 “La Virgen, She Watches over Us” 121
16. III . STUDYING CHILDREN IN SCHOOLS
17. 9 Going through the Motions of Ritual 139
18. 10 Catholic Children’s Experiences of Scripture and the Sacrament of Reconciliation through Catechesis of the Good Shepherd 157
19. 11 Religion and Youth Identity in Postwar Bosnia Herzegovina 172
20. IV. USING ADULT-GENERATED MATERIAL ABOUT CHILDREN: SOURCES AND METHODS FOR ACCESSING CHILDREN’S VOICES FROM THE PAST AND TODAY
21. 12 The Battle for the Toy Box 189
22. 13 “God made this fire for our comfort” 202
23. 14 Childhood in the Land of Hope 220
24. 15 The Baptism of a Cheyenne Girl 236
25. 16 Examining Agency, Discourses of Destiny, and Creative Power in the Biography of a Tibetan Child Tertön 252
26. 17 Memory Work and Trauma in Research on Children 267
27. Bibliography 285
28. About the Contributors 301
29. Index 305