The Spiritual Life of ChildrenFor 30 years Robert Coles has been talking and listening to children all over the world and recording their responses to crises, to hardship and sorrow and to moral and political pressure. In this one of eight volumes in his Pulitzer Prize-winning series, Children of Crisis, he speaks to and for the religious and spiritual lives of children, conveying their views of salvation and righteousness, their experience of God and their ways of understanding the ultimate meaning of their own lives. |
Contents
Introduction | xi |
Psychoanalysis and Religion | 1 |
Method | 22 |
The Face of God | 40 |
The Voice of God | 69 |
Young Spirituality Psychological Themes | 98 |
Young Spirituality Philosophical Reflections | 129 |
Young Spirituality Visionary Moments | 148 |
Representations | 167 |
Christian Salvation | 202 |
Islamic Surrender | 225 |
Jewish Righteousness | 249 |
Secular SoulSearching | 277 |
The Child as Pilgrim | 303 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Spiritual Life of Children Inner lives of children, Robert Coles Peter Davison book |
| Author | Robert Coles |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1990 |
| ISBN | 0395599237, 9780395599235 |
| Length | 358 pages |
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