Religious upbringing and the costs of freedom : personal and philosophical essays /
"Brings together autobiographical narratives and reflections by philosophers who were brought up in strict religious environments"--Provided by publisher.
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University Park, Pa. :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2010]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the indoctrination project / Peter Caws and Stefani Jones
- Childhood vulnerability and internalized belief
- Indirect indoctrination, internalized religion, and parental responsibility / Christine Overall
- Religious indoctrination and the wish for the irrevocable : reflections on a Muslim upbringing / Irfan Khawaja
- From Fundamentalist to freethinker (it all began with Santa) / Raymond D. Bradley
- Growing up to question Catholicism : emotional suffering, the euthyphro, and the life of the mind / Damien Alexander Dupont
- Reconfiguring the morality of indoctrination
- Biting into the hermeneutical apple : biblical literalism and the lure of uncertainty / Amalia Jiva
- Autonomy and indoctrination in Evangelical Christianity / Tasia Persson
- Indoctrination, autonomy, and authenticity / Glen Pettigrove
- Embodiment, family, and conflict
- From revelation and faith to reason and agnosticism / Paul H. Hirst
- For the love of paradox : Mennonite morality and philosophy / Diane Enns
- Finding my voice / Stefani Jones
- Tragedies of belief / Peter Caws.