Children Adolescents And Spirituality

Children, Adolescents and Spirituality by Marian de Souza and Winifred Wing Han Lamb

Childhood is a contested notion. Recent debates present us with a plethora of questions and concerns about how children fare in affluent societies. Are they losing their innocence too early? Are they propelled too quickly into the role of the customer? How can we protect them from a predatorial corporate world? Are we too protective, too risk-adverse in how we bring them up? In the midst of affluence and consumerism, are children over-indulged? Are they idolised? Such questions have elicited a range of responses from writers in this collection- theologians, researchers, teachers, principals and pyschologists.