Children's spirituality and postmodern faith
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20504228 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Clive Erricker (Hampshire College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 51-60 |
| Publication date | 2007-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Children s Spirituality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1364-436X • E-ISSN: 1469-8455 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13644360701266143 |
| OpenAlex | W2131225891 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 5 |
This paper seeks to investigate what faith environment would support the development of children's spirituality (focusing, in particular, on older children or young people). It argues that we can draw on the wisdom of tradition with insight from contemporary knowledge constructions through a postmodern re‐reading of faith. In doing so it creates a tension between religion, understood as doctrinal formula, with its concern for knowledge, political ends and power, and faith as a possibility within an environment of uncertainty. If the latter is promoted over the former, then we have to ask what educational changes need to be undertaken for children and young people to be provided with conditions that entertain the possibility of faith rather than the opportunity of reward that comes from the affirmation of religious (or secular) 'certainties'. Keywords: ReligionFaithUndecidabilitySignificationNarrativeIterationAporia Notes 1. For Derrida's understanding of aporia, see Marian Hobson (Citation1998), Jacques Derrida: opening lines, p. 52. Aporetic is the opposite of that which we can grasp and explain with conceptual certainty. As an example see the following argument of Kierkegaard on God and the Unknown. 2. This essay is an excellent introduction to this theme in Derrida's earlier writings
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| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2023 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |