Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions

by Yust, Karen-Marie; Johnson, Aostre N.; Sasso, Sandy Eisenberg; Roehlkepartain, Eugene C.; Agarwal, Vishal; Ascherman, Arik; Blumberg, Sherry H.; Brown, Richard C.; Bunge, Marcia J.; Caldwell, Elizabeth F.; Charry, Ellen T.; Dawson, Kathy; Dollahite, David

• ISBN13: 9780742544635
• ISBN10: 074254463X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-27
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions provides a forum for prominent religious scholars to examine the state of religious knowledge and theological reflection on spiritual development in childhood and adolescence. Featuring essays from thinkers representing the world's major religious traditions, the book introduces new voices, challenges assumptions, raises new questions, and broadens the base of knowledge and investment in this important domain of life. Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality will set the stage for new waves of scholarship and dialogue within and across traditions, disciplines, and cultures that will enrich understanding and strengthen how the world's religious traditions, and others, understand and cultivate the spiritual lives of children and adolescents around the globe.

Table of Contents

Traditional wisdom : creating space for religious reflection on child and adolescent spirituality	p. 1
Awakening latent spirituality : nurturing children in the Hindu tradition	p. 19
The child as compassionate Bodhisattva and as human sufferer/spiritual seeker : intertwined Buddhist images	p. 33
Learning to be righteous : a Jewish theology of childhood	p. 43
The dignity and complexity of children : constructing Christian theologies of childhood	p. 53
Filling the heart with the love of God : Islamic perspectives on spirituality in childhood and adolescence	p. 69
Saintly children : Roman Catholicism and the nurture of children	p. 83
After a child's first dance with God : accompanying children on a Protestant spiritual journey	p. 95
In right relationship with God : childhood conversion in Evangelical Christian traditions	p. 108
From naming to initiation : childhood and adolescence in African Christian spirituality	p. 122
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