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Religious Diversity and Children's Literature

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This book helps teachers, religious educators, and families learn about and teach religious diversity. It covers various traditions, including indigenous beliefs, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Chris...
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  • 29 March 2011
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This book is an invaluable resource for enabling teachers, religious educators, and families to learn about religious diversity themselves and to teach children about both their own religion as well as the beliefs of others. The traditions featured include indigenous beliefs throughout the world, Native American spirituality, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity (Orthodoxy, Catholicism and Protestantism), Islam, Sikhism, and other beliefs such as Bahá'í, Unitarian Universalism, Humanism, and Atheism. Each chapter highlights a specific religion or spiritual tradition with a brief discussion about major beliefs, misconceptions, sacred texts, and holy days or celebrations. This summary of each tradition is followed by extensive annotated recommendations for children’s and adolescent literature as well as suggested teaching strategies. The recommended literature includes informational books, traditional religious stories, and fiction with religious themes. Teachers, religious educators, and family members will find the literature from these genres to be invaluable tools for bridging the religious experience of the child with that of the global society in which they live.

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Price: $110.00
Pages: 260
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint: Information Age Publishing
Series: International Social Studies Forum: The Series
Publication Date: 29 March 2011
ISBN: 9781617353970
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: EDUCATION / Research, Teaching of a specific subject
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Chapter 1. Why Learn About Religious and Spiritual Traditions?
Chapter 2. Connecting World Religions and Children's Literature.
Chapter 3. Indigenous Belief Systems.
Chapter 4. Native American Spirituality.
Chapter 5. Hinduism.
Chapter 6. Judaism.
Chapter 7. Buddhism.
Chapter 8. Christianity: Orthodoxy and Catholicism.
Chapter 9. Christianity: Protestantism.
Chapter 10. Islam.
Chapter 11. Sikhism.
Chapter 12. Free Thinkers and Other Belief Systems.