David Hay is a zoologist and Honorary Senior Research Fellow of the Department of Divinity and Religious Studies at the University of Aberdeen. For the past 11 years he has also been a visiting professor at the Institute for the Study of Religion at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. David was formerly Reader in Spiritual Education at the University of Nottingham, where he directed the Children's Spirituality Project. He is also a former director of the Alister Hardy Research Centre in Oxford. Rebecca Nye is a child psychologist and a member of staff in the faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University.
Preface to the First Edition. Preface to the Revised Edition. Part I:
Orientation. 1. What is Spirituality and Why Is It Important? 2. The Social
Destruction of Spirituality. 3. Children's Spirituality - What We Know
Already. 4. A Geography of the Spirit. Part II: Investigation. 5. How do
you Talk with Children about Spirituality? 6. Listening to Children
Talking, by Rebecca Nye. 7. Identifying the Core of Children's
Spirituality, by Rebecca Nye. Part III: Reflection. 8. The Naturalness of
Relational Consciousness. 9. Nurturing the Spirit of the Child. 10.
Developments Since 1998. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
