[PDF.38ck] When I Was a Child: Children's Interpretations of First Communion

When I Was a Child: Children's Interpretations of First Communion

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 | #173816 in Books |  The University of North Carolina Press |  2005-09-26 |  2005-09-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x.62 x5.25l,.53 | File type: PDF | 272 pages

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||3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Beautifully written and insightful|By John Bee|Susan Bales has written a wonderfully insightful book on the experiences of Catholic children as they prepare for, and participate in, First Communion. This is a must read for Catholic educators of children and their parents. The book is also a treasure trove for scholars of Religion American - filled with rich research and analy| |[Bales] blends a thoughtful ethnographic look at first communicants in two North Carolina churches.--Chronicle of Higher Education||

Bales has written a groundbreaking ethnography about children's ritual experience that challenges the long negl

First Communion is generally understood as a rite of passage in which seven- and eight-year-old Catholic children transform from baptized participants in the Church to members of the body of Christ, the universal Catholic Church. This official Church account, however, ignores what the rite actually may mean to its participants. In When I Was a Child, Susan Ridgely Bales demonstrates that the accepted understanding of a religious ritual can shift dramatically when ...

You easily download any file type for your device.When I Was a Child: Children's Interpretations of First Communion   |  Susan Ridgely. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.

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