Children and Childhood in American Religions

Contributors

223 CONTRIBUTORS JOHN P. BARTKOWSKI, a professor of sociology at the University of Texas at San Antonio, has published on religion, family, gender, youth, and social welfare. His most recent book is The Promise Keepers: Servants, Soldiers, and Godly Men (200), which charts the rise and fall of the Evangelical men’s movement. He is currently completing two books, one on the contours and effects of Latter-day Saint teen religiosity and the other on faith-based initiatives across various policy domains. MARGARET BENDROTH is the executive director of the American Congregational Association in Boston, Massachusetts, and the director of the Congregational Library. She is the author of Fundamentalism and Gender, 1875 to the Present, and Growing Up Protestant: Parents, Children, and Mainline Churches. JENNIFER BESTE is an associate professor of theological ethics at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is author of God and the Victim: Traumatic Intrusions on Grace and Freedom (2007). She is presently conducting a qualitative research study interviewing Catholic second graders about their first experiences of the Sacrament of Reconciliation. DON S. BROWNING is Alexander Campbell Professor of Religious Ethics and the Social Sciences, Divinity School, University of Chicago, emeritus. He is most recently the author of Christian Ethics and the Moral Psychologies (2006) and coeditor of Sex, Marriage, and Family in the World Religions (2006). RAYMOND BUCKO is a professor of anthropology, the chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and the director of the Native American studies program at Creighton University. He is the author of The Lakota Ritual of the Sweat Lodge (1998) and “Peter the Aleut: Sacred Icons and the 224 CONT R IBU TOR S Iconography of Violence,” in Boletín: The Journal of the California Mission Studies Association. EMILY BUSS is the Mark and Barbara Fried Professor of Law and Kanter Director of Policy Initiatives at the University of Chicago Law School. Buss’s research focuses on children’s and parents’ rights and the legal system’s allocation of authority and responsibility between parent, child, and state. As Kanter Director, she heads a project aimed at improving the legal system’s treatment of children aging out of foster care. DAVID C. DOLLAHITE, PhD, is a professor of family life at Brigham Young University. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Massachusetts –Amherst; Dominican University of California; and the M.S. University of Baroda, India. He coedited Helping and Healing Our Families (2005) and edited Strengthening Our Families (2000), both on Mormon family life. ELLIOT N. DORFF, rabbi, PhD, is rector and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles. His twelve books include Love Your Neighbor and Yourself: A Jewish Approach to Modern Personal Ethics (2003), which contains a chapter on how Jewish sources and modern Jews perceive parent-child relationships. CHRISTOPHER G. ELLISON is the Elsie and Stanley E. Adams Sr. Centennial Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His previous work on Evangelicalism and child rearing has appeared in the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, and numerous other outlets. CHERYL TOWNSEND GILKES, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of African-American Studies and Sociology at Colby College, is the author of If It Wasn’t for the Women: Black Women’s Experience and Womanist Culture in Church and Community (2001). She is an ordained Baptist minister, and her published sermons have appeared in the African American Pulpit. RITA M. GROSS is a scholar-practitioner who has specialized in issues relating to gender and religion. Her best-known book is Buddhism after Patriarchy: A Feminist History, Analysis, and Reconstruction of Buddhism (1993). She has also participated widely in interreligious discussions. ROGER IRON CLOUD is a former federal employee, child development specialist , and community organizer. He is a member of the Oglala Lakota Tribe CONT R IBU TOR S 225 from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Mr. Iron Cloud currently lives in Virginia. JEFFREY MEYER is a professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His books include The Dragons of Tiananmen: Beijing as a Sacred City (1991). He has written extensively on moral education in the elementary and junior high schools of the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan. BONNIE J. MILLER-MCLEMORE is E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Pastoral...