The Spiritual Life Of Children - Softcover

Coles, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0395599237 ISBN 13: 9780395599235

Publisher: HarperOne, 1991

Synopsis

In this eighth and final volume in his Pulitzer Prize­winning Children of Crisis series, Coles examines the religious and spiritual lives of children. By using children's own words and pictures, Coles presents their deepest feelings.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Coles is a winner of the National Medal of Freedom.

From Library Journal:

Pulitzer prize-winning Harvard child psychiatrist Coles, a social scientist and prolific writer of books dealing with children's perceptions of poverty, moral and political stress, and crisis, shares his research regarding children's understanding of and reflections on spiritual matters. Inspired by his psychoanalytic training and a conversation with Anna Freud, Coles interviewed in-depth over 500 Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and agnostic children, ages eight to 12, living in North and South America, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. What Cole delivers, in between thoughtful but nonjargonistic explanations of children's remarks and art work, are detailed, fascinating conversations between an expert interviewer and children struggling to understand God and the contradictions of their religious teachings. Recommended for larger public and college library collections and church/synagogue libraries. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 7/90.
-Janice Arenofsky, formerly with Arizona State Lib., Phoenix
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperOne
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0395599237
• ISBN 13: 9780395599235
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384