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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. ...successful as it is interesting and thought provoking and should instigate discussion and thus re-examination of religious spirituality and its relationship with children. International Journal Of Children's Spirituality, December 2007 The editors deserve commendation for providing a volume of great interest and use to serious students and scholars of religious studiesssss CHOICE The editors deserve commendation for providing a volume of great interest and use to serious students and scholars of religious studies CHOICE Zusammenfassung Provides a forum for religious scholars to examine the state of religious knowledge and theological reflection on spiritual development in childhood and adolescence. Featuring essays! this book introduces voices! challenges assumptions! raises questions! and broadens the base of knowledge and investment in this domain of life. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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:...
