Researching children, youth and religion: Identity, complexity and agency
Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: Research on children, young people and religion is becoming more prevalent following an increased interest in this traditionally under-researched area. However, little discussion has taken place to date on the appropriateness of past frameworks for making sense of children’s religious lives. This article calls attention to the issue of religious identity in relation to children and young people. By drawing on the diffuse body of interdisciplinary social scientific research in this area, the article seeks to apply the new social studies of childhood model through the two concepts of complexity and agency. Following this, it then goes on to make some suggestions for future directions in the study of children, young people and religious identity.
Source: Childhood
Authors: Peter J. Hemming, Nicola Madge
Institutions: Cardiff University, Brunel University of London
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Award: G4317319658
OpenAlex ID: W2026899112