Children and spirituality : searching for meaning and connectedness / Brendan Hyde.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hyde, Brendan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Religious life.

Children.

Religious education of children.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Brendan Hyde identifies four characteristics of children's spirituality: the felt sense, integrating awareness, weaving the threads of meaning, and spiritual questing . These characteristics can be observed in children if those who work with them know what to look for and are alert to the time, place and space in which children find themselves. This book provides ways in which schoolteachers and parents can nurture and foster these particular characteristics of children's spirituality. It also considers two factors, material pursuit and trivialising, which may inhibit children's expression of

Contents:

FRONT COVER; Children and Spirituality: Searching for Meaning and Connectedness; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Part 1: Preparing the Ground; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Mapping the Terrain; Chapter 3: Research on the Spirituality of Childhood; Chapter 4: An Approach for Understanding the Expressions of Human Life; Part 2: The Characteristics of Children's Spirituality; A Preface to Part 2; Chapter 5: The Felt Sense; Chapter 6: Integrating Awareness; Chapter 7: Weaving the Threads of Meaning; Chapter 8: Spiritual Questing; Chapter 9: Factors that Inhibit Spirituality

Chapter 10: Nurturing the Spiritual Dimension of Children's LivesNotes; Bibliography; Subject Index; Author Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-281-78187-8

9786611781873

1-84642-754-1

OCLC:

476168701