Introduction by Cathy Ota and Clive Erricker
Part I Empirical Approaches
1 Spirituality and Religiosity in Catholic and Coptic Orthodox Schools: Implications
for Religious School Communities
Marian de Souza
2 “And What
Do the Children Say?” Children’s Responses to Books about
Spiritual Matters
Ann Trousdale
3 North American
Indian Spirituality in the World of Western Children: (Neo-)
Colonialism in a Post-Colonial Society
Christina Welch
4 Issues of
Identity for “Asian” Girls in Britain
Jane Erricker
Part II Literary Approaches
5 Play as a
Means of Grace in Religious Education
Jerome Berryman
6 Spirituality
in Young Adolescents: Thinking Developmentally
Daniel Scott
7 The Spiritual
and the Fantastical – George MacDonald’s “Wise Woman”
John Pridmore
8 Faith and
Social Intimacy: Learning for Life
Joyce Bellous
9 How Metaphors
Structure Our Spiritual Understanding
Mark Halstead
10 The Chinese
Approach to Learning: The Paradigmatic Case of Chinese Calligraphy
Wong Ping Ho
Part III Pedagogical
Approaches
11 Encountering
Tradition in a Postmodern Context
David Tacey
12 Reading
and Responding to Biblical Texts: Aesthetic Distance and the
Spiritual Journey
Mark Pike
13 The Spiritual
Dimension of the Curriculum: What are school inspectors looking
for and how can we help them find it?
Jack Priestley
14 Teachers’
Values and Spiritualities: From Private to Public
Mark Chater
15 Faith Education
of Children in the Context of Adult Migration and Conversion:
The Discontinuities of Tradition
Clive Erricker
16 Metaphors
of Spiritual Education: Fight and Blessing
Maria Azevedo and Helena Gil Costa
The Contributors
Index
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