Religion and children
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"And as the capacity for believing is strongest in childhood, special care is taken to make sure of this tender age. This has much more to do with the doctrines of belief taking root than threats and reports of miracles. If, in early childhood, certain fundamental views and doctrines are paraded with unusual solemnity, and an air of the greatest earnestness never before visible in anything else; if, at the same time, the possibility of a doubt about them be completely passed over, or touched upon only to indicate that doubt is the first step to eternal perdition, the resulting impression will be so deep that, as a rule, that is, in almost every case, doubt about them will be almost as impossible as doubt about one's own existence."— Arthur Schopenhauer, On Religion: A Dialogue[1] |
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Children usually acquire the religious views of their parents, although they may also be influenced by others they communicate with such as peers and teachers. Aspects of this subject include rites of passage, education and child psychology, as well as discussion of the moral issue of religious education of children.
See also
- Abortion and religion
- Children's rights
- Daugherty v. Vanguard
- Emmanuel Schools Foundation
- Homeschooling
- Lost boys (Mormon fundamentalism)
- Preacher's kid
- Religious freedom
- Religious male circumcision