A Working Bibliography for the Study of Childhood and Religion
Ashcraft, W. Michael. The Dawn of the New Cycle: Point Loma Theosophists and American Culture. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002.
Bakke, Odd Magne. When Children Became People: The Birth Of Childhood In Early Christianity. Brian McNeil, trans. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2005.
Bales, Susan Ridgley. When I Was a Child: Children's Interpretations of First Communion. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
Beaman, Lori G., "Response: Who Decides? Harm, Polygamy and Limits on Freedom," Nova Religio 10.1 (Aug.2006): 43-51.
Belk, Russell. "A Child's Christmas in America: Santa Claus as Deity, Consumption as Religion," Journal of American Culture 10.1 (Spring 1987.): 87-100.
Bettelheim, Bruno. The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. New York: Vintage Books, 1986.
Bendroth, Margaret Lamberts. Growing Up Protestant: Parents, Children, and Mainline Churches. Rutgers University Press, 2002.
Boylan, Anne M. Sunday School: The Formation of an American Institution, 1790-1880. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.
Bradley, Martha Sonntag. "Response: Patriarchy, Intervention, and Prophetic Leadership Challenges in the Culture of Mormon Fundamentalism," Nova Religio 10.1 (Aug.2006): 30-42.
Bunge, Marcia, ed. The Child in Christian Thought. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2001.
Capps, Donald. The Child's Song: The Religious Abuse of Children. Louisville: W/JKP, 1995.
------. "Religion and Child Abuse: Perfect Together." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 31 (1992), 1-14.
Charmé, Stuart Z. "Children's Gendered Responses To the Story of Adam And Eve." Journal of Feminist Studies In Religion 13 (1997) 27-49.
Chidester, David. "Saving the Children by Killing Them: Redemptive Sacrifice in the Ideologies of Jim Jones and Ronald Reagan." Religion and American Culture 1.2 (1991):177-201.
Clark, Cindy Dell. Flights of Fancy, Leaps of Faith: Children's Myths in Contemporary America. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Clark, Lynn Schofield. From Angels to Aliens: Teenagers, the Media, and the Supernatural. Oxford University Press, 2003.
Coles, Robert. Children of Crisis: Studies of Courage and Fear. New York: Dell Publishing, Inc., 1967.
------. The Spiritual Life of Children. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990.
Coward, Harold and Philip Cook, eds. Religious Dimensions Of Child And Family Life: Reflections On The UN Convention On The Rights Of The Child. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria, Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, 1996.
Doress, I. And J.N. Porter. "Kids in Cults." In In Gods We Trust: New Patterns of Religious Pluralism in America, eds. Thomas Robbins and Dick Anthony. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1981.
Dwyer, James. Religious Schools v. Children's Rights. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998.
Ellison, Christopher G. and John P. Bartkowski. ""Babies Were Being Beaten": Exploring Child Abuse Allegations at Ranch Apocalypse." In Armageddon in Waco: Critical Perspectives on the Branch Davidian Conflict, ed. Stuart A. Wright. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Erricker, Jane, Cathy Ota, and Clive Erricker. Spiritual Education: Cultural, Religious, and Social Differences. Brighton, England and Portland, Or.: Sussex Academic Press, 2001.
Fowler, James W. Stages Of Faith: The Psychology Of Human Development And The Quest For Meaning. San Francisco, Calif.: Harper & Row, 1981.
Francis, Leslie, William Kay, and William Campbell, eds. Research in Religious Education. Leominster, Herdfordshire: Gracewing; Macon, Ga.: Smyth & Helwys Pub., 1996.
Goldman, Ronald. Religious Thinking from Childhood to Adolescence. San Francisco, Calif.: Harper San Francisco, 1984.
Greven, Philip. The Protestant Temperament: Patterns of Child-Rearing, Religious Experience, and the Self in Early America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977.
------. Spare the Child: the Religious Roots of Punishment and the Psychological Impact of Physical Abuse. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1991.
Haight, Wendy. African-American Children at Church. Cambridge University Press: 2002.
Hay, David. The Spirit Of The Child. London and Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2006.
Heller, David. The Children's God. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
Herman, Ellen. "The Difference Difference Makes: Justine Wise Polier and Religious Matching in Twentieth-Century Child Adoption." Religion and American Culture 10 (2000): 57-98.
Hyde, Kenneth Edwin. Religion in Childhood and Adolescence: A Comprehensive Review of the Research. Birmingham, AL: Religious Socialization Press, Inc., 1990.
James, Allison, Chris Jenks, and Alan Prout. Theorizing Childhood. New York: Teachers College Press, 1998.
Johnson, Vernon. Spiritual Childhood: The Spirituality of St. Thérèse of Lisieux. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2001.
Kent, Stephen. "A Matter of Principle: Fundamentalist Mormon Polygamy, Children, and Human Rights Debates." Nova Religio 10.1 (Aug. 2006): 7-29.
Kincaid, James R. Erotic Innocence: The Culture of Child Molesting. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998.
Lerner, Lawrence. Angels and Absences: Child Deaths in the Nineteenth Century. Nashville: Vanderbilt U. Press, 1997.
Levine, Stephanie Wellen. Mystics, Mavericks, And Merrymakers: An Intimate Journey Among Hasidic Girls. New York: New York University Press, 2003.
Marcus, Ivan G. Rituals of Childhood: Jewish Acculturation in Medieval Europe. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1996.
Miller-McLemore, Bonnie J. Let the Children Come: Reimagining Childhood from a Christian Perspective. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003.
Morey, Ann-Janine. "In Memory of Cassie: Child Death and Religious Vision in American Women's Novels." Religion and American Culture 6 (1996): 87-104.
Murken, Sebastian and Sussan Namini. "Childhood Familial Experiences as Antecedents of Adult Membership in New Religious Movements: A Literature Review." Nova Religio 10.4 (May 2007): 17-37.
Nelsen, Hart M. and Alice Kroliczak. "Parental Use of the Threat "God Will Punish": Replication and Extension." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 23 (1984), 267-277.
Nelsen, Hart M. and Raymond H. Potvin. "The Rural Church and Rural Religion: Analysis of Data from Children and Youth." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 429 (1977), 103-114.
Oakley, Ann. "Women and Children First and Last: Parallels and Differences Between Children's and Women's Studies." In Berry Mayall, ed., Children's Childhoods: Observed and Explained. London and Washington, D.C.: The Falmer Press, 1994, 13-32.
Orsi, Robert A. "Material Children: Making God's Presence Real for Catholic Boys and Girls and for the Adults in Relation to Them." In Between Heaven and Earth: The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.
Palmer, Susan J. and Charlotte E. Hardman, eds., Children in New Religions. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 1999.
Plaskow, Judith. "Bringing a Daughter into the Covenant." Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion. Eds. Carol P. Christ and Judith Plaskow. San Francisco, Calif.: Harper San Francisco, 1992.
Prout, James and Allison James. Constructing and Reconstructing Childhood. Basingstoke, England: Flamer Press, 1990.
Rizzuto, Ana-Maria. The Birth Of The Living God: A Psychoanalytic Study. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979.
Robinson, Edward. The Original Vision: A Study of the Religious Experience of Childhood. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1983.
Rosengren, Karl S., Carl N. Johnson, and Paul L. Harris, eds. Imagining The Impossible: Magical, Scientific, And Religious Thinking In Children. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Sered, Susan Starr. "Childbirth As a Religious Experience? Voices From an Israeli Hospital." Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 7 (1991): 7-18.
Short, Geoffrey and Bruce Carrington. "The Development of Children's Understanding of Jewish Identity and Culture." School Psychology International 13 (1992), 73-89.
Special Issue On Rites Of Passage And Child And Youth Care. Child & Youth Care Quarterly 27.5 (1998).
Stevens, Mitchell L. Kingdom of Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001.
Strommen, Merton, ed. Research on Religious Development: A Comprehensive Handbook. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1971.
Taussig, Michael. "The Adults Imagination of the Child's Imagination." In Aesthetic Subjects, eds. Pamela R. Matthews and David McWhirter. London and Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003, 449-67.
Thorne, Barrie. "Editorial: Theorizing Age and Other Differences." Childhood 11.4 (2004) 403-08.
Wall, John. "Fatherhood, Childism, and the Creation of Society." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 75.1 (Spring 2007): 52-76.
Ward, Seth, ed. Women, Children, Families in Jewish and Islamic Studies. Holmes & Meiers, 2004.
Wishy, Bernard. The Child and the Republic: The Dawn of Modern American Child Nurture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1968.
Wood, Diana, ed. The Church And Childhood : Papers Read At The 1993 Summer Meeting And The 1994 Winter Meeting Of The Ecclesiastical History Society. Oxford and Cambridge, Mass., Blackwell Publishers, 1994.
Wuthnow, Robert. Growing Up Religious. Boston: Beacon Press, 1999.
Yust, Karen-Marie, Aostre Johnson, Sandy Sasso, and Eugene Roehlkepartain, eds. Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions. Lanham, Md: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2006.
Zelizer, Viviana A. Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1981.
Ziolkowski, Eric. Evil Children in Religion, Literature, and Art. New York: Palgrave, 2001.
International Journal of Children's Spirituality