Editor's Introduction: The Spirituality of Parenting. Or, Stomping, Screaming, and Slamming Doors

Parenting does this in part because it is a wholistic enterprise, engaging: body, mind, and spirit; economics, politics, and history; gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity; eating, sleeping, and being bored. Parents bear a great amount of responsibility for giving their children values, rules, and limits, but raising children is also a continuous act of letting them go: to school, to friends' houses, to other political and religious points of view, off to another city to live. [...]each of the contributors takes historical views on religious traditions and updates them through their own activities, their own ways of making sense of family life.