C21 Event Looks at Kids’ Faith and Consumer Society
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The challenge of fostering children’s faith development in a consumer society will be the subject of a discussion on Dec. 2 sponsored by the Church in the 21st Century Center Series on Women.“Unwrapping Faith for Our Children: Helping the Young Challenge Consumerism,” which takes place at 5:30 p.m. in the Heights Room of Corcoran Common, will feature Sociology Professor Juliet Schor and Mary M. Doyle Roche, assistant professor of religious studies at the College of the Holy Cross. Both will share insights and practical suggestions to help children and families to grow in critical awareness, conscious consumption, and a faith that challenges consumerism.
Schor, author of Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and The New Consumer Culture and The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don’t Need, will provide a sociological overview of the obstacles to helping children fight consumerism. Doyle Roche, whose publications include Children, Consumerism, and the Common Good, will provide a theological perspective on the challenges to consumerism that faith provides.
The C21 Series on Women — developed in the wake of the 2004 Envisioning the Church Women Want conference at Boston College and in response to women’s desires to participate in shaping the future of faith and church — provides a public forum for the University
community to learn more about the history of women in the Catholic Church, to share women’s stories of the integration of their faith with the fullness of their lives, and to cultivate mentoring relationships among women of faith affiliated with BC.
For more information, call 2.3489 or e-mail wrc@bc.edu.