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.
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...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 *
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 Bahį'ķ 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
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.
