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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453789103321

Autore

Hyde Brendan

Titolo

Children and spirituality [[electronic resource] ] : searching for meaning and connectedness / / Brendan Hyde

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Philadelphia, : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2008

ISBN

1-281-78187-8

9786611781873

1-84642-754-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 p.)

Disciplina

204.083

Soggetti

Children - Religious life

Religious education of children

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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;

Sommario/riassunto

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