TY - JOUR
T1 - Children's understanding of religion
T2 - Interviews with Arab-Muslim, Asian-Muslim, Christian and Hindu children aged 5-11 years
AU - Takriti, Rachel A.
AU - Barrett, Martyn
AU - Buchanan-Barrow, Eithne
PY - 2006/3
Y1 - 2006/3
N2 - Research into children's awareness of group differences has been an active area of research for some time, with work focusing on areas such as nationality, ethnicity, gender and religion. The majority of the work in these areas has taken the cognitive-constructivist framework as a background, offering a domain-general approach to all social cognition. This paper reports a qualitative study investigating children's understanding of religion and the importance of religion, broadly following an interview schedule based on Verbit's (1970) definition of religion. A semi-structured interview procedure was used with 58 Arab Muslim, Asian Muslim, Christian, and Hindu children aged between 5 and 11 years living in North London. Religion appeared to be highly salient to the children interviewed, and findings suggested that children's religious identity is subject to a complex pattern of influences which cannot be solely explained by either age or cognitive differences.
AB - Research into children's awareness of group differences has been an active area of research for some time, with work focusing on areas such as nationality, ethnicity, gender and religion. The majority of the work in these areas has taken the cognitive-constructivist framework as a background, offering a domain-general approach to all social cognition. This paper reports a qualitative study investigating children's understanding of religion and the importance of religion, broadly following an interview schedule based on Verbit's (1970) definition of religion. A semi-structured interview procedure was used with 58 Arab Muslim, Asian Muslim, Christian, and Hindu children aged between 5 and 11 years living in North London. Religion appeared to be highly salient to the children interviewed, and findings suggested that children's religious identity is subject to a complex pattern of influences which cannot be solely explained by either age or cognitive differences.
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U2 - 10.1080/13674670512331335677
DO - 10.1080/13674670512331335677
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:30344447288
SN - 1367-4676
VL - 9
SP - 29
EP - 42
JO - Mental Health, Religion and Culture
JF - Mental Health, Religion and Culture
IS - 1
ER -