- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (Trade) (1 Dec 1990)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0395559995
- ISBN-13: 978-0395559994
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 14.2 x 3.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,049,256 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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. The author's approach is to interview large numbers of children, aiming to gain their trust and get to the root of their beliefs through drawings, poems and conversation. He has befriended Christian, Jewish, Muslim and non-religious children throughout the world, and in this book sets out to present their deepest thoughts and feelings in words and pictures.
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STILL RELATIVELY UNKNOWN and living in a strongly Catholic city, Freud dared take on belief in God at a meeting in early March 1907 of the Vienna Psychoanalytical Society. Read the first page
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31 of 32 people found the following review helpful
Theologically valuable as well
30 Aug 2001
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I read this book from a point-of-view more interested from a theological than psychological (not that these have to be kept separate), and I suspect that EVERYONE who studies theology could benefit from listening to children describe their own spiritualities.
Coles' narration is occasionally insightful, occasionally annoying, always self-conscious. He interviews children alone and in groups, listening and participating in their reflections and conversations. He interviews various races and religions, including chapters on Christian, Jewish, Islamic and secular children in America, the UK, Tunisia and Israel. I found his interviews with Hopi children very provocative.
The book has both intellectual and spiritual value, and I hope it is read more widely than it has been.
35 of 37 people found the following review helpful
Inner Lives of Children Skillfully Revealed
22 Nov 1999
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Although this book was published in 1991, the ideas, attitudes, and spiritual insights of the children interviewed are as fresh and important as when the discussions first occurred. As adults we tend to dismiss the ability of children to offer their own interpretation of the Divine. This book clearly shows that it is frequently the adults that don't "get it." I found it especially appealing that Coles did not limit himself solely to children with a Christian background. The inclusion of Muslim, Jewish, and Native American children indicates that children's spirituality cuts across religious and cultural lines. I only wish Robert Coles had included more interviews and drawings!
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Children, Religion, and Science
4 April 2000
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Robert Coles' insightful study of children's ideas about God and religion also opens an important window on the question of the proper approah of science to religion. Coles appears to struggle personally with this issue, deciding in the end that the scientist may properly take a person's religious beliefs at face value. The delightful discussions with children that lead toward this conclusion make compelling reading.
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