Suffer the little children : urban violence and sacred space / edited by Kay A. Read and Isabel L. Wollaston.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Birmingham : University of Birmingham Press, 2001.
Description
x, 201 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Preface / Kay A. Read
    • Writing and rewriting the cross / Isabel L. Wollaston
    • Part I: The children's cross: origins, issues, reactions and reflections
    • Reflections on the children's cross at St James Cathedral / Janet Campbell
    • When children are killed, what do we do? One community's response / James Halstead and Jule D. Ward --Part II: Philosophical and theological reflections
    • Introduction / Isabel L. Wollaston
    • Waylaying the way of the cross: a dilemma for practical theology / Dennis P. McCann
    • The ambiguity and promise of an urban 'Cross-road' / Gareth Jones
    • The violated body and the nausea of memory / Charles R. Strain
    • Memory, memorials and redemption / Denys Turner --Part III: Memorializing death and traumatic pasts
    • Three spaces marking child sacrifice / Kay A. Read
    • Celebrating the massacre of innocence / Martin D. Stringer
    • Black memory: commemorating the sacred and the traumatic in the African diaspora / Emmanuel Lartey
    • Memorializing collective tragedy in public space / Frida Kerner Furman and Roy S. Furman
    • Epilogue / Martin E. Marty.
    ISBN
    • 1902459113
    • 9781902459110
    • 9780902459113
    • 0902459112
    LCCN
    2002327973
    OCLC
    47193148
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