| Children, Adolescents and Spirituality: Some Perspectives Contributor(s): Souza, Marian De (Editor), Lamb, Winfred W. H. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1920691901 ISBN-13: 9781920691905 Publisher: ATF Press OUR PRICE: $16.10 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2008 Annotation: Childhood is a contested notion. Recent debates present us with a plethora of questions and concerns about how children fare in our affluent societies. Are they losing their innocence too early? Are they propelled too quickly into the role of consumer? Is spirituality the answer? What does spirituality mean? The articles in this volume are a window on the contemporary world, reflecting a diversity of views on the nature of the self, of the child, of human flourishing and of the transcendent. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Body, Mind & Spirit | Celtic Spirituality - Religion | Spirituality - Religion | Christian Education - Children & Youth |
| Series: Interface: A Forum for Theology in the World |
| Physical Information: 0.2" H x 5.7" W x 8" (0.30 lbs) 168 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Childhood is a contested notion. Recent debates present us with a plethora of questions and concerns about how children fare in affluent socities. Are they loosing their innocence too early? Are they propelled too quickly into the role of the customer? How can we protect them from a predatorial corporate world? Are we too protective, Too risk adverse in how we bring them up? In the midst of affluence and consumerism, are children over-indulged? Are they idolised? Such questions have elicited a rnage of responses from writers in this collection- theologians, researcher, teacher, principals and pyschologists. |