Cultivating Christians: North American family cultures and religious identity formation
North American Christian families face many challenges as they try to live faithfully in an intercultural, multi-religious, secularising world, particularly with regard to the formation of religious identity in children. Answering the question of how children become Christian is more complicated tod...
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| Tipo de documento: | Recurso Electrónico Artigo |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2017]
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International journal of children's spirituality
Ano: 2017, Volume: 22, Número: 3/4, Páginas: 260-273 |
| Classificações IxTheo: | CB Existência cristã CD Cristianismo ; Cultura KBQ América do Norte NCB Ética individual RF Catequética |
| Outras palavras-chave: | B
Acculturation
B beliefs and values B Christian B Religious Identity B spiritual practices |
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| Resumo: | North American Christian families face many challenges as they try to live faithfully in an intercultural, multi-religious, secularising world, particularly with regard to the formation of religious identity in children. Answering the question of how children become Christian is more complicated today than it was for previous generations because adults cannot assume that the Christian vestiges of a civil religion will be sufficient to help children embrace a robust sense of themselves as God's beloved and called people in a divinely created world. Thus, this essay explores what social science research and theological reflection might offer religious leaders as frameworks and tools for encouraging family cultures that cultivate young Christians, focusing particularly on strategies for sharing religious language, communicating beliefs and values, modelling spiritual practices, encountering symbolic images, and participating in congregational life. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-8455 |
| Obras secundárias: | Enthalten in: International journal of children's spirituality
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1364436X.2017.1363721 |
