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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
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