Theology as Experienced and Verbalized: Children’s Voices in a Theological Context
Using material from a participatory research project in which I worked with a small group of eleven-year-olds in a parish in the Church of Sweden, I discuss how children’s voices are dependent on various factors, such as church context, group dynamics, and age and power structures. I argue for the i...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
Religious education
Year: 2025, Volume: 120, Issue: 1, Pages: 76-89 |
| Further subjects: | B
research with children
B Church of Sweden B participatory methods B Childhood |
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| Summary: | Using material from a participatory research project in which I worked with a small group of eleven-year-olds in a parish in the Church of Sweden, I discuss how children’s voices are dependent on various factors, such as church context, group dynamics, and age and power structures. I argue for the importance of awareness of ecclesial context as well as of relations within a group of research participants when aiming for participatory research and how theological agency among children in the Church of Sweden can be seen in interactions, rather than verbalized with theological language. |
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| ISSN: | 1547-3201 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religious education
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/00344087.2025.2450912 |
