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When I Was a Child: Children's Interpretations of First Communion

Autor Susan Ridgely Bales
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2005
Listening to children's understandings of a ritual First Communion is generally understood as a rite of passage in which seven- and eight-year-old Catholic children transform from baptized participants in the Church to members of the body of Christ, the universal Catholic Church. This official Church account, however, ignores what the rite actually may mean to its participants. In When I Was a Child, Susan Ridgely Bales demonstrates that the accepted understanding of a religious ritual can shift dramatically when one considers the often neglected perspective of child participants. Bales followed Faith Formation classes and interviewed communicants, parents, and priests in an African American parish and in a parish containing both white and Latino congregations. By letting the children speak for themselves through their words, drawings, and actions, When I Was a Child stresses the importance of rehearsal, the centrality of sensory experiences, and the impact of expectations in the communicants' interpretations of the Eucharist. In the first sustained ethnographic study of how children interpret and help shape their own faith, Bales finds that children's perspectives give new contours to the traditional understanding of a common religious ritual. Ultimately, she argues, scholars of religion should consider age as distinct a factor as race, class, and gender in their analyses.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780807856338
ISBN-10: 0807856339
Pagini: 257
Dimensiuni: 135 x 216 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: University of North Carolina Press

Notă biografică

Susan B. Ridgely is associate professor of religious studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.