‘Just leave it blank’ non-religious children and their negotiation of prayer in school

This article examines how non-religious children experience acts of collective worship and prayer in primary school settings and analyses how they negotiate religion and their non-religious identities in these events. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork examining non-religious childhoods and collectiv...

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VerfasserInnen: Shillitoe, Rachael (VerfasserIn) ; Strhan, Anna (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Routledge [2020]
In: Religion
Jahr: 2020, Band: 50, Heft: 4, Seiten: 615-635
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B England / Grundschule / Schüler / Areligiosität / Schulgottesdienst / Teilnahme
RelBib Classification:AB Religionsphilosophie; Religionskritik; Atheismus
AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik
AH Religionspädagogik
KBF Britische Inseln
RF Christliche Religionspädagogik; Katechetik
weitere Schlagwörter:B Secular
B Agency
B Childhood
B Non-religion
B Prayer
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Zusammenfassung:This article examines how non-religious children experience acts of collective worship and prayer in primary school settings and analyses how they negotiate religion and their non-religious identities in these events. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork examining non-religious childhoods and collective worship in three English primary schools, the authors explore how non-religious children demonstrate their agency when confronted with particular boundaries and concepts related to religion and non-religion in school contexts. Attending to the experiences, perspectives, and practices of non-religious children adds to our understanding of the varieties of non-religion, which has to date largely focused on elite, adult populations. Focusing on non-religious children’s experiences of prayer reveals how these children did not experience tensions between praying to God and their non-religious identities and articulated their own interpretations of these practices, deepening understanding of the lived realities of non-religious cultures and identities.
ISSN:1096-1151
Enthält:Enthalten in: Religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2020.1758230