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From theoretical and practical considerations, this book explores children's weaving of and distancing from family, cultural, educational, and religious traditions. It examines the transformational relationship between traditions and young people's lives and spirituality and pursues answers to the various questions.
List of contents
Introduction: Beyond traditions, but not without them 1. Reflecting on Children’s Spiritual Experiences and Traditions 1. The role of culture and traditions in how young children’s identities are constructed 2. Cultivating Christians: North American family cultures and religious identity formation 3. The strings on David’s Harp: religious ritual as a container for spirituality 4. Silenced by performativity: The child’s right to a spiritual voice in an age of neoliberal educational imperatives 5. Navigating the spaces of children’s spiritual experiences: influences of tradition(s), multidisciplinarity and perceptions 2. Children’s Spirituality and Traditions in Action 6. Finding connections between spirituality and play for early childhood education 7. The study of the Persian mystical fable’s capacity to be rewritten as spiritual literature for children in the light of the theory of relational consciousness 8. Alternative religion kids: spiritual and cultural identity among children and youth involved with new religious movements 9. Enlivening thinking and speech in search of spiritual identity: the role of ‘speech formation’ in Steiner’s Waldorf education
About the author
Elaine Champagne holds the Religion, Spirituality and Health Chair at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Sciences (Laval University). Her research in practical theology focuses on spiritual care in pediatric contexts. Her recent projects examine relational dynamics, agency, vulnerability, and the hope of children in the context of serious illness.
Summary
From theoretical and practical considerations, this book explores children’s weaving of and distancing from family, cultural, educational, and religious traditions. It examines the transformational relationship between traditions and young people’s lives and spirituality and pursues answers to the various questions.
