How We See God and Why It Matters : A Multicultural View Through Children's Drawings and Stories

by Landy, Robert J.

• ISBN13: 9780398071714
• ISBN10: 0398071713
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Introduction	xi
Acknowledgments	xvii
Plates and Figures	xxiii
At Home	3	(13)
Beginnings	3	(4)
The Jew Is in Jail	7	(3)
Why Is God Saying This?	10	(3)
God's Story	13	(3)
In The Kitchen	16	(19)
America	16	(19)
The Color of God	17	(1)
God's Persistence	18	(4)
Baha'i	22	(1)
God Lives Seven Skies High	23	(6)
The Red Dot	29	(2)
Beijing and Bialystock	31	(2)
The Rest of the USA	33	(2)
God In Nearby Places	35	(16)
Canada	35	(9)
Isis and Jupiter	37	(2)
A Blind God Gives His Child a Teddy Bear	39	(1)
Heaven and Hell	40	(1)
The Book of Mormon	41	(2)
God's Hat	43	(1)
Mexico	44	(7)
Work to Live	44	(2)
The Streets of Chapultepec	46	(2)
The Careful Cloud	48	(1)
God in His Cloud	49	(2)
God In Europe	51	(93)
England	51	(10)
The Center Colors of Heaven	53	(3)
The Sky in Heaven Has Lots of Colors and Everyone Is Asleep Except God	56	(1)
Shiner	57	(1)
The Lord's Light Is Shining	58	(1)
Everyone Is Allowed In	59	(1)
A Story	60	(1)
Northern Ireland	61	(6)
The Orange and the Green	62	(1)
Soten Fightes God	63	(1)
Speaking to God	64	(3)
Denmark	67	(4)
The Little Mermaid	68	(1)
Away with the Devil	69	(2)
Portugal	71	(5)
A Very Little Man with Very Big Horns	74	(1)
God Is Our Friend	75	(1)
Spain	76	(6)
The Carpenter	77	(1)
Don't Be Cruel	78	(1)
The True Flowing	79	(1)
The Protective Cover of God	80	(1)
The Lost Angel	81	(1)
Austria	82	(8)
The Loving God Warms Himself and Smiles	82	(3)
God in the Gate of Clouds	85	(1)
Dominik Dominus	86	(3)
The Red and the Black	89	(1)
Germany	90	(19)
The Soul	103	(1)
God's Ears	104	(1)
The Eagle	105	(1)
God's Eyes	105	(4)
God, the Comforter	109	(1)
Italy	109	(7)
I Go with God to Heaven	110	(1)
Pettirossa	111	(2)
Mary Poppins' Bag	113	(1)
That Shadow Behind Us	113	(3)
Eastern Europe	116	(13)
Croatia	117	(2)
Bosnia	119	(2)
Bulgaria	121	(3)
God Stays in the Soul	124	(2)
Czech Republic	126	(3)
Greece	129	(15)
God Speaks in Ancient Greek	131	(2)
God with Maria	133	(3)
Gypsies	136	(1)
God's Belly Button	137	(1)
God's Willy	138	(1)
Going Around in Circles	139	(1)
A Picture of God and the Virgin Mary and Christ and All the Saints	140	(1)
Nothing or Maria	141	(3)
The Gods Of Asia	144	(26)
India	144	(9)
God Is in the Temple	145	(2)
The Faithful God Who Listened to His Mother	147	(2)
Sikhs	149	(1)
The Glory of the Gods	150	(3)
China	153	(1)
Taiwan	154	(6)
The Fat, Laughing Buddha	156	(1)
The Goddess of Mercy	156	(1)
A Crucifixion	157	(1)
All About Eve	157	(1)
The Laughing Grandfather	158	(1)
God Is a Soldier	159	(1)
The Buddha-to-Be	160	(1)
Japan	160	(4)
God and Hotake-sama	161	(1)
Mari-chan and God	162	(1)
The Emperor of Ice Cream	162	(1)
Lost in America	163	(1)
Korea	164	(6)
Fathers and Daughters	165	(1)
The Magic Sticks	166	(1)
The Red Cherries	167	(3)
The Holy Land	170	(33)
Israel	170	(33)
A God Party	173	(3)
The Mouth of God	176	(2)
A Family Looks for God	178	(4)
God and the Wishes of Man	182	(2)
God's Golden Chair	184	(2)
God Created	186	(1)
The School	187	(2)
The Satanic Verses	189	(3)
The Face of God	192	(1)
The World and Satan	192	(1)
Satan's Dance	193	(1)
In Jerusalem	193	(1)
Where Have All the Rabbis Gone?	193	(3)
All About Jesus	196	(4)
Across the Jordan	200	(3)
Conclusion	203