Spiritual Education

Clive Erricker is County Inspector for Religious Education, Hampshire. The volume editors are co-editors of the "International Journal of Children's Spirituality". Cathy Ota is Research Fellow, Education Research Centre, University of Brighton. Clive Erricker is County Inspector for Religious Education, Hampshire. The volume editors are co-editors of the "International Journal of Children's Spirituality".

• Contents: The Non-verbal Nature of Spirituality and Religious Language; When Your Children Ask -- A Jewish Theology of Childhood; Toward a Pedagogy of the Sacred: Transcendence, Ethics, and the Curriculum; Who Nurtured the Child? Without attachment there can be no intimacy; Children, Doorposts and Hearts: How can and should the religious traditions respond to spirituality in a post-modern setting?; Listening to... listening for...: A Theological Reflection on Spirituality in Early Childhood; Youth Spirituality as a Response to Cultural Crisis; Spirituality versus Individualism: The Challenge of Relational Consciousness; Storytelling, Voice and Qualitative Research: Spirituality as a Site of Ambiguity and Difficulty; Religious Nurture and Young People's Spirituality: Reflections on Research at the University of Warwick; The Corruption of Innocence and the Spirituality of Dissent: Postcolonial Perspectives on Spirituality in a World of Violence; "Theory of mind" or "Theory of the soul?": The Role of Spirituality in Children's Understanding of Minds and Emotions; The Prospects of Spirituality in a Globalised, Technologised World; The Experience of Religious Varieties: William James and the Post-modern Age; Spirituality and the Notion of Citizenship in Education; Postmodernism, Spirituality and Education in Late Modernity; Searching for the Spirit; Autism and Childhood Spirituality; Youth and Adulthood in Children's and Adults' Perspectives; The Conflict between Pedagogical Effectiveness and Spiritual Development in Catholic Schools; The Spiritual Education of Khoja Shia Ithnasheeri (KSI) Youth: The Challenges of Diaspora; Conclusion.