Suffer the little children
Subtitle: urban violence and sacred space
By: edited by Kay A. Read and Isabel L. Wollaston.
Contributors: Read, Kay Almere, 1944-; Wollaston, Isabel.
Publisher: University of Birmingham Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Birmingham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: Saint James Episcopal Cathedral (Chicago, Ill.) -- History -- 20th century.; Crosses -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century.; Children -- Crimes against -- Religious aspects.; Children -- Death -- Religious aspects.; Memorials.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Writing and Rewriting the Cross 1; title: ISABEL L. WOLLASTON; title: Part I. The Children's Cross: Origins, Issues, Reactions and Reflections Reflections on the Children's Cross at St James Cathedral 19; title: JANET CAMPBELL; title: When Children are Killed, What Do We Do? One Community's Response 37; title: JAMES HALSTEAD and JULE D. WARD; title: Part II. Philosophical and Theological Reflections; title: Introduction 57; title: ISABEL L. WOLLASTON; title: Waylaying the Way of the Cross: A Dilemma for Practical Theology 61; title: DENNIS P. McCANN; title: The Ambiguity and Promise of an Urban 'Cross-Road' 73; title: GARETH JONES; title: The Violated Body and the Nausea of Memory 85; title: CHARLES R. STRAIN; title: Memory, Memorials and Redemption 103; title: DENYS TURNER; title: Part III. Memorializing Death and Traumatic Pasts; title: Introduction 117; title: ISABEL L. WOLLASTON; title: Three Spaces Marking Child Sacrifice 121; title: KAY A. READ; title: Celebrating the Massacre of Innocence 143; title: MARTIN D. STRINGER; title: Black Memory: Commemorating the Sacred and the Traumatic in the African Diaspora 157; title: EMMANUEL LARTEY; title: Memorializing Collective Tragedy in Public Space 169; title: FRIDA KERNER FURMAN and ROY S. FURMAN.