TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shillitoe,Rachael
TI  - Negotiating Religion and Non-religion in Childhood: Experiences of Worship in School 
T2  - Studies in Childhood and Youth,
SN  - 9783031398605
U1  - 305.2 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Cham
PB  - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Social groups
KW  - Religion and sociology
KW  - Education
KW  - Spirituality
KW  - Children
KW  - Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging
KW  - Sociology of Religion
KW  - Childhood Education
N1  - 1. Introduction -- 2. Adult Anxieties and Generational Blind Spots: Re-centring Childhood in the Sociology of Religion -- 3. On Concepts and Agency: Negotiating Religion and Nonreligion in School -- 4. The School Family: Rituals of Solidarity, Belonging and Cooperation -- 5. Doing Good': Children's Ethical Formation through the Everyday -- 6. On Silence, Candles, Jelly Timers and Enya: Creating Sacred Spaces in Collective Worship -- 7. Conclusion.
N2  - This book explores how and if the mandate for children to worship in schools can be justified within the context of declining church attendance and increasing nonreligious identification in British society. Shillitoe asks what place compulsory worship has in an increasingly diverse and plural society, and what the answer means for the relationship between religion, the secular, and education more broadly. Through in-depth ethnographic fieldwork from across three schools in southwest England, the book reveals how examining the significance of children's experiences expands our understanding of both collective worship in schooling and religion in social life more broadly and demonstrates that adult-centric anxieties and assumptions in this area do not always reflect the experiences of children.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39860-5
ER  -