Shillitoe, Rachael Marie and Strhan, Anna Harriet Block orcid.org/0000-0002-0875-1197 (2020) 'Just leave it blank' non-religious children and their negotiation of prayer in school. Religion. ISSN 1096-1151
Abstract
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.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. Further copying may not be permitted; contact the publisher for details. |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Sociology (York) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number JOHN TEMPLETON FOUNDATION UNSPECIFIED |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 15 May 2020 08:50 |
Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2024 16:37 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2020.1758230 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/0048721X.2020.1758230 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:160768 |
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