Navigating Languages, Literacies and Identities

Prologue

Vally Lytra, Dinah Volk and Eve Gregory

Introduction

Vally Lytra, Dinah Volk and Eve Gregory

Part I: Religious Practices at Home and across Generations

1: Home Worship Service/Bible Reading/Reading Lesson: Syncretic Teaching and Learning in a Puerto Rican Family

Dinah Volk

2: Easter Celebrations at Home: Acquiring Symbolic Knowledge and Constructing Identities

Ana Souza, Olga Barradas and Malgorzata Woodham

3: Coming of Age: Amish Heritage Literacy Practices of Rumspringa, Adult Baptism, and Shunning

Suzanne Rumsey

Part II: Religious Education Classes and Places of Worship

4: Socialization into Religious Sensation in Children's Catholic Religious

Instruction

Patricia Baquedano-Lopez

5: The "Responsive Reading" and Reading Responsively: Language, Literacy, and African American Student Learning in the Black Church

Tryphenia B. Peele-Eady

6: Heavenly Entextualisations: The Acquisition and Performance of Classical Religious Texts

Andrey Rosowsky

7: Moving across Languages, Literacies and Schooling Traditions

Leslie C. Moore

8: Children's Representations of the Temple in Text and Talk in a Tamil Hindu/Saiva Faith Community in London

Vally Lytra, Eve Gregory and Arani Ilankuberan

Part III: Bridging Home, School and Community

9: Joseph .... Yusuf: Changing Names, Navigating Spaces, Articulating Identities

Ambarin Mooznah Auleear Owodally

10: Secular and Religious Literacies in Multilingual Hasidic Homes and Schools in Brooklyn

Ayala Fader

11: Engendering 'dispositions' in communicative and semiotic practices:

Insights from the Nishkam nursery project

Gopinder Kaur Sagoo

12: Supporting children's learner identities through faith: Ghanaian Pentecostal and Bangladeshi Muslim communities in London

Charmian Kenner, Amoafi Kwapong, Halimun Choudhury and Mahera Ruby

Conclusion

Susi Long