Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality (eBook, PDF)

Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions
Redaktion: Yust, Karen-Marie; Roehlkepartain, Eugene C.; Sasso, Sandy Eisenberg; Johnson, Aostre N.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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. It specifically and intentionally focuses on theological and philosophical perspectives from within religious traditions, creating space for the religious traditions to find their voices. Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality is firmly grounded in the language and priorities of religious studies, and helps stimulate explorations of whether and how religious communities are tapping their own wisdom and strengths in nurturing today's young people in a complex and changing world. 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798765176214
• Artikelnr.: 75140922

Autorenporträt

Karen Marie Yust, Th.D., is associate professor of Christian education at Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education. Aostre N. Johnson, Ed.D., is associate professor of education at Saint Michael's College, where she teaches curriculum and pedagogy courses and directs the master's program in curriculum. Sandy Eisenberg Sasso, D.D., is the rabbi of Congregation Beth-El Zedeck. Eugene C. Roehlkepartain is senior advisor and director of Family and Congregation Initiatives for Search Institute, Minneapolis. He serves as co-director for the institute's initiative on spiritual development in childhood and adolescence.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Traditional Wisdom: Creating Space for Religious Reflection on
Child and Adolescent Spirituality
Chapter 2 Awakening Latent Spirituality: Nurturing Children in the Hindu
Tradition
Chapter 3 The Child as Compassionate Bodhisattva and as Human
Sufferer/Spiritual Seeker: Intertwined Buddhist Images
Chapter 4 Learning to Be Righteous: A Jewish Theology of Childhood
Chapter 5 The Dignity and Complexity of Children: Constructing Christian
Theologies of Childhood
Chapter 6 Filling the Heart with the Love of God: Islamic Perspectives on
Spirituality in Childhood and Adolescence
Chapter 7 Saintly Children: Roman Catholicism and the Nurture of Children
Chapter 8 After a Child's First Dance with God: Accompanying Children on a
Protestant Spiritual Journey
Chapter 9 In Right Relationship with God: Childhood Conversion in
Evangelical Christian Traditions
Chapter 10 From Naming to Initiation: Childhood and Adolescence in African
Christian Spirituality
Chapter 11 The Child on Loan: The Pathway from Infancy through Adolescence
in Islamic Studies
Chapter 12 Entering the World Entering Torah: Moving from the Natural to
the Sacred in the Jewish Life Cycle
Chapter 13 Educating the Warrior: A Tibetan Buddhist Approach to Spiritual
Growth
Chapter 14 Young MindsYouthful Buddhas: Developmental Rituals and Practices
in Tibetan Buddhism
Chapter 15 Narrative and Imagination: The Role of Texts and Storytelling in
Nurturing Spirituality in Judaism
Chapter 16 Sanctifying Time: A Jewish Perspective on Prayer, Holy Days,mand
Blessings in the Life of Children
Chapter 17 Schooling the Heart: Introducing Catholic Youth to the Meaning
and Practice of Prayer
Chapter 18 Sacred Celebrations: The Role of Festivals in Nurturing Hindu
Children's Spirituality
Chapter 19 Reformed Spirits: Christian Practices in Presbyterian Preschools
in South Korea and the United States
Chapter 20 A Way of Mind and Life: The Relationship of Adolescent Catholic
Spirituality to Life Structure
Chapter 21 Singing Hope and Practicing Justice: Adolescent Emancipatory
Hope Embodied in the Life of Ruby Doris Smith
Chapter 22 Repairing the World: The Place of Mitzvoth in Children's
Spiritual Lives
Chapter 23 Young People's Spirituality as a Force for Social Change: A
Bahá'í Perspective
Chapter 24 Children and the Five Pillars of Islam: Practicing Spirituality
in Daily Life
Chapter 25 Value-Creating Education: A Nichiren Buddhist Perspective
Chapter 26 At Home with Faith and Family: A Protestant Christian
Perspective
Chapter 27 Sunday School for Buddhists? Nurturing Spirituality in Children
Chapter 28 Personal Responsibility with Communal Support: The Spiritual
Education of Muslim Children
Chapter 29 Understanding Dharma, Performing Karma: Shared Responsibilities
for Spiritual Grooming in Hindu Traditions
Chapter 30 Transforming Bar/Bat Mitzvah: The Role of Family and Community
Chapter 31 Teaching Correct Principles: Promoting Spiritual Strength in LDS
Young People
Chapter 32 Scarce Discourse: Exploring GenderSexuality and Spirituality in
Buddhism
Chapter 33 Identity Jihads: The Multiple Strivings of American Muslim Youth
Chapter 34 Countering a Malforming Culture: Christian Theological Formation
of Adolescents in North America
Chapter 35 Resistance and Resilience: Cultivating Christian Spiritual
Practices among Brazilian Children and Youth
Chapter 36 Spiritual Economies of Childhood: Christian Perspectives on
Global Market Forces and Young People's Spirituality
Chapter 37 Born with a Knife in Their Hearts: Children and Political
Conflict in the Middle East