Bigger, Stephen (2008) Book Review: The handbook of spiritual development in childhood and adolescence. Taylor and Francis.
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Bigger, Stephen (2008) Book Review: The handbook of spiritual development in childhood and adolescence. Taylor and Francis.
Published version: The handbook of spiritual development in childhood and adolescence, edited by EugeneC. Roehlkepartain, Pamela E. King, Linda Wagener, and Peter L. Benson, Thousand Oaks,Sage, 2006, xvi + 543 pp., £85.00 (hardback), ISBN 0-7619-3078-7
Version attached to this record: Spiritual Development in Childhood and Youth: A response to the Sage Handbook of Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence
This article gives a detailed assessment of the usefulness of the new Handbook of Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence from Sage Publications, arguing that it is an important baseline study of current research, and that it demonstrates that every aspect of research in this field requires new research. It argues that new research into spiritual development must clearly distinguish this from religious development, and that the construction of a secular non-theocentric psychology of spiritual education is urgently required.
This paper is 5200 words long as opposed to the published version which is 1400 words.
An abridged form was published in the Journal of Beliefs and Values, 2008.
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