The Spiritual Life of Children

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1990 - 358 páginas
For 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.
 

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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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Boston-born psychiatrist and author Robert Martin Coles devoted his professional life to the psychology of children. Coles has been associated with the Harvard University Medical School since 1960. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his five-volume series entitled Children in Crisis, Coles has contributed hundreds of articles to popular magazines, as well as writing over thirty books for adults and children. Other books include The Mind's Fate, Flannery O'Connor's South, and Walker Percy: An American Search.

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