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227 INDEX Abd’l-Haleem, Khadijah, 205, 209n51 abortion, 26, 38, 72; children’s rights and, 216, 219 Abyssinian Baptist Church (Harlem, New York), 97 adoption: in American Islam, 13; Native American, 120, 121, 132, 125 African Americans: baptism and baby dedication, 87; Black Church and children, 9, 21, 85–101; childhood crisis, 93; children and music in worship, 90, 91; children and racial oppression, 98, 101n30; and Christianity, 85, 86, 87, 99n1, 100n12; culture, 93, 101n22; denominations, 100n8; family, 96; and Islam, 133, 137, 11, 12, 13, 1, 15, 17n15; spirituals, 88; Sunday school, 89; urbanization, 97 agency, 3, 8, 67, 87, 9, 97, 192n15; individual, 106; moral, 6, 65, 66, 103, 106, 110 Allen AME Church (Queens, New York), 97 Amar Chitra Katha (Hindu picture books for children), 157 American Academy of Religion, 8, 9 American-Born Confused Desi (ABCD), 161–162 American culture: African American identity within, 85–101; Asian American identity within, 180–193; Bible as primer, 9; Catholic identity within, 56, 61; Hindu identity within, 18–16; Islamic identity within, 133–17, 201, 202, 20; Latter-day Saint identity within, 112, 11; Native American identity within, 119–132; and parochial school movement, 206; religious view of, , 26, 28, 29 American Sociological Association, 8 Amish, 211, 212, 21, 217, 219 Analects (Confucius), 183 Andrews, Dale, 93, 100n21 anthropology, 3, 7, 8, 9, 22n13, 132n27 ‘Aqiqa ceremony, 135 Ashkenazim, 79 Asian Americans: Buddhists, 166, 167, 168, 175; Confucians, 180–193 assimilation, 17, 198, 199, 206; laws and, 211 Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 203 Averroes Academy (Chicago), 201, 202, 208n33 Banerjee, Aditi, 162, 16n30 Baptists, 28, 88, 100n7, 218; Abyssinian Baptist Church, 97; African American, 89, 100n8; conventions, 95; Shiloh Baptist Church, 97; Southern, 89 Barazangi, Nimat Hafez, 202, 203, 209n37 bar mitzvah. See under Jewish Americans Bartkowski, John, 5, 6, 16, 17, 23n22, 5nn1– , 5n12, 5n15, 55n18, 55nn20–22, 55n25, 55nn27–28, 221n6 Beck, Walter, 197, 207n6, 207n10 Bendroth, Margaret, 5, 6, 15, 22n18, 23n21, 25–0, 53, 55n31 Benedict XVI (pope), 76 Beshir, Sumaiya, 13 Beste, Jennifer, 5, 6, 56–70, 221n7 Bethel AME Church (Baltimore), 97 bhajans (sacred Hindu songs), 15 Bible: and childbirth issues, 73; child discipline in, 5, 5n13; Christian, 17; inerrancy of, 29, 2, 3, 9; Jewish, 71, 78, 80; and literacy; 9; memorization of, 2; and Mormons, 118n12; and pedagogy, 35; Protestant, 29 Bloom, Harold, 10, 118n10 Bochaswansi Akshar Purushottam Sanstha (BAPS) Swaminarayan Group, 150; mission, 157, 158 Book of Mormon, 17, 106, 111, 118n12 Braxton, Toni, 92 Breach of Trust, Breach of Faith (Canadian Conference of Bishops), 65, 70n30, 70n33 Brigham Young University (BYU), 10 Browning, Don S., 2n30, 118n16, 163n8, 207n 228 INDEX Bucko, Raymond, 6, 13, 15, 117, 119–132 Buddha, 13, 18, 167, 170, 17, 179nn10–11 Buddhism, 1, 16, 18; approaches to children, 16; conception, 168, 169; conversion, 166–168, 172–175, 178; diversity in, 165; immigrant, 16, 166, 172, 173, 17, 177, 178, 179; Gakai, 172; Japanese Pure Land, 17; Japanese Zen, 180; karma, 167, 168, 171, 179; lay, 18, 175, 176; monasticism,165; Native American, 129; North American, 165–179; parent-child relationship in, 167; practices, 1, 18; rebirth, 167–170, 179n2; Tibetan, 165, 167, 169, 170, 172 Bunge, Marcia, 9, 21n1, 22nn17–18, 23n19, 23n21, 2n2, 101n30 Bushnell, Horace, 15, 26, 27, 31–36, 38, 0n13, 0n20; Bushnellian model, 3, 38 Buss, Emily, 16, 210–222 Canadian Conference of Bishops, 65, 66, 69n, 70n30, 70n33, 117 Cante Ohitika (Brave Heart) society, 125 Catholic Americans. See Catholic Church Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), 63 Catholic Charities, 63 Catholic Church: advocacy and, 63; advocacy challenges to, 6, 65, 67, 68; canon law, 16, 56, 57, 70n35; meaning of marriage and family, 57; religious education, 61, 68n1; Sacrament of Reconciliation, 62, 63, 66; sacraments and liturgy in, 62, 63; schools, 198, 206; secular cultural threats to, 59–61; on substance abuse, 63; theology and tradition, 56, 57, 58 Channing, William Ellery, 25, 26, 30, 3, 39n1 Character Counts, 206 Chaves, Mark, 91, 92, 100n17, 209n55 child discipline, 16, 17; corporal punishment, 2–55, 8n27, 213; Protestant, 2, 5, 6, 9, 52, 5n3, 55n21 Childhood in America (Fass and Mason), 9, 22n16 child psychology, 7 child rearing: Asian American Confucianism, 182; Buddhist, 169, 17, 175; Evangelical, 8, 9, 51, 55n31; government involvement in, 21, 221; Protestant, 26, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8; scientific, 27 “Children as...

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