Editors’ Preface
1. Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence: Moving to
the Scientific Mainstream - Eugene C. Roehlkepartain, Peter L.
Benson, Pamela Ebstyne King, and Linda M. Wagener
PART I FOUNDATIONS FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF SPIRITUAL
DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE
Introduction
2. Toward a Developmental Analysis of Religious and Spiritual
Development - W. George Scarlett
3. Stages of Faith From Infancy Through Adolescence: Reflections on
Three Decades of Faith Development Theory - James W. Fowler and
Mary Lynn Dell
4. Spiritual Development: Intersections and Divergence With
Religious Development - David Hay, K. Helmut Reich, and Michael
Utsch
5. On Making Humans Human: Spirituality and the Promotion of
Positive Youth Development - Richard M. Lerner, Amy E. Alberts,
Pamela M. Anderson, and Elizabeth M. Dowling
6. Philosophical Issues in Spiritual Education and Development -
Hanan A. Alexander and David Carr
7. Measurement and Research Design in Studying Spiritual
Development - Richard L. Gorsuch and Donald Walker
PART II DESCRIPTIVE APPROACHES TO SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT
Introduction
8. The Demographics of Spirituality Among Youth: International
Perspectives - Laura H. Lippman and Julie Dombrowski Keith
9. The Changing Global Context of Adolescent Spirituality - Suman
Verma and Madelene Sta. Maria
10. Spiritual and Religious Pathology in Childhood and Adolescence
- Linda M. Wagener and H. Newton Malony
11. Non-Western Approaches to Spiritual Development Among Infants
and Young Children: A Case Study From West Africa - Alma
Gottlieb
12. Spiritual Experiences and Capacities of Children and Youth -
Tobin Hart
PART III SPIRITUALITY AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: EXPLORING
CONNECTIONS
Introduction
13. A Neuropsychological Perspective of Spiritual Development -
Andrew B. Newberg and Stephanie K. Newberg
14. Attachment and Spiritual Development in Childhood and
Adolescence - Pehr Granqvist and Jane R. Dickie
15. Cognitive-Cultural Foundations of Spiritual Development - Carl
N. Johnson and Chris J. Boyatzis
16. The Relationship Between Moral and Spiritual Development -
Lawrence J. Walker and Kevin S. Reimer
17. The Relationship Between Spiritual Development and Civic
Development - Thomas M. Donnelly, M. Kyle Matsuba, Daniel Hart, and
Robert Atkins
18. The Relation Between Spiritual Development and Identity
Processes - Janice L. Templeton and Jacquelynne S. Eccles
19. Personality and Spiritual Development - Teresa T. Kneezel and
Robert A. Emmons
PART IV THE ECOLOGIES OF SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT
Introduction
20. Ethnicity, Culture, and Spiritual Development - Jacqueline S.
Mattis, Muninder K. Ahluwalia, Sheri-Ann E. Cowie, and Aria M.
Kirkland-Harris
21. The Family as a Context for Religious and Spiritual Development
in Children and Youth - Chris J. Boyatzis, David C. Dollahite, and
Loren D. Marks
22. Mentors, Friends, and Gurus: Peer and Nonparent Influences on
Spiritual Development - Kelly Dean Schwartz, William M. Bukowski,
and Wayne T. Aoki
23. Congregations: Unexamined Crucibles for Spiritual Development -
Eugene C. Roehlkepartain and Eboo Patel
PART V DEVELOPMENTAL OUTCOMES OF SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT
Introduction
24. Religious Coping by Children and Adolescents: Unexplored
Territory in the Realm of Spiritual Development - Annette Mahoney,
Sara Pendleton, and Heidi Ihrke
25. Resilience and Spirituality in Youth - Emily Crawford, Margaret
O’Dougherty Wright, and Ann S. Masten
26. Delinquency: A Quest for Moral and Spiritual Integrity? -
Ronnie Frankel Blakeney and Charles David Blakeney
27. Spiritual Development and Adolescent Well-Being and Thriving -
Pamela Ebstyne King and Peter L. Benson
28. Religion, Spirituality, and Children’s Physical Health - Doug
Oman and Carl E. Thoresen
PART VI TOWARD THE FUTURE IN PRACTICE, POLICY, AND RESEARCH
Introduction
29. Spiritually Oriented Psychotherapy With Youth: A Child-Centered
Approach - Lisa Miller and Brien Kelley
30. Bridging the Gap: From Social Science to Congregations,
Researchers to Practitioners - Dean Borgman
31. Integrating Spiritual Development Into Child and Youth Care
Programs and Institutions - Daniel G. Scott and Douglas
Magnuson
32. Bridging to Public Policy and Civil Society - Steve Hornberger,
Roberta Furtick Jones, and Robert L. Miller Jr.
33. Childhood Spirituality: Strengthening the Research Foundation -
Donald Ratcliff and Rebecca NyeDonald Ratcliff and Rebecca Nye
34. The Science of Child and Adolescent Spiritual Development:
Definitional, Theoretical, and Field-Building Challenges - Peter L.
Benson
Author Index
Subject Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Eugene C. Roehlkepartain is senior adviser in the office of the
president, Search Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he
provides leadership for research, publishing, training, and
consulting projects that focus on spiritual development, as well as
the institute’s work with congregations of all faiths.
Roehlkepartain has written more than 25 books and reports, and
numerous newspaper, magazine, and journal articles on youth
development, families and parenting, community building, religious
and spiritual development, and related issues. In addition to
editing this volume, he is a coeditor of Religious Perspectives on
Spirituality in Childhood and Adolescence (2005). He holds a
bachelor’s degree in journalism and religion from Baylor University
in Waco, Texas.
Pamela Ebstyne King serves as research assistant professor of
psychology in the Center for Research in Child and Adolescent
Development in the School of Psychology at Fuller Theological
Seminary in Pasadena, California. Her primary research and teaching
interests include positive youth development, spiritual and moral
development, and theological perspectives of development. She is
particularly interested in enabling thriving through families,
congregations, schools, and youth-serving organizations. Ordained
in the Presbyterian Church (USA), Dr. King has a background in
child, youth, and adult ministry; a master’s of divinity; and Ph.D.
in family studies from Fuller Theological Seminary. She was a
visiting scholar under the Divinity Faculty at Cambridge University
and did her postdoctoral work at the Stanford Center on
Adolescence. Dr. King is a coauthor of The Reciprocating Self:
Human Development in Theological Perspective (2005). Her research
has been published in Developmental Psychology, Applied
Developmental Science, the Journal of Early Adolescence, and the
Journal of Psychology and Christianity.
Linda M. Wagener is associate professor of psychology and associate
dean of the graduate school of psychology at Fuller Theological
Seminary, where she is also codirector of the Center for Research
in Child and Adolescent Development. Her research interests include
positive youth development, with a particular focus on the
spiritual, religious, and moral development of adolescence. Dr.
Wagener is currently a principal investigator on an adolescent
violence prevention grant from the United States Office of Juvenile
Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
Peter L. Benson is president of Search Institute, which provides
leadership, knowledge, and resources to promote healthy children,
youth, and communities. He has written extensively in adolescent
development, altruism, spiritual development, and thriving in
adolescence. He serves as principal investigator for Search
Institute’s initiative on spiritual development in childhood and
adolescence. In 1991, he received the William James Award for
career contributions to the psychology of religion from the
American Psychological Association. Dr. Benson is the author or
editor of numerous books and articles, including Developmental
Assets and Asset-Building Communities, All Kids Are Our Kids: What
Communities Must Do to Raise Caring and Responsible Children and
Adolescents, and Religion on Capitol Hill: Myths and Realities. He
is general editor for the Search Institute Series on
Developmentally Attentive Community and Society, published by
Springer. He holds a doctorate in experimental social psychology
from the University of Denver.
"The editors recognize that spirituality, long neglected by
psychologists, has recently come back into fashion. Because
of the long exile, many psychologists are illiterate about
religious scholarship. These editors know the field and are
qualified to serve as guides to assist their psychologist
colleagues in gaining an introduction and immersion….Timely and
worthwhile."
*James Youniss*
“Research into spiritual development during childhood and
adolescence has remained fragmented and yearned for the stimulus of
integration, cross-fertilisation, and internationalisation, across
conceptual boundaries, methodological divisions, religious
traditions, and local interests. The Handbook of Spiritual
Development in Childhood and Adolescence sets out to meet this need
and does so with skill and with authority, by identifying the key
themes and by drawing on the best minds to address those
themes. Research communities and faith communities have been
well served by this pioneering initiative.“
*The Revd Professor Leslie J Francis PhD, ScD, DD*
"The Handbook of Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence
makes a significant contribution to the breadth of interpretation
of the multiple realities related to something we identify as
spirituality. The strength of this volume is that it does not
settle for one description or one definition of spirituality.
Instead, it offers insight into the struggle to define spirituality
through the multiple perspectives of the social sciences. The
edited volume contributes meaningfully to the work of others who
also study the content and context of our spiritual
development."
*Joretta L. Marshall*
"With sixty-seven scholars from four continents and many diverse
disciplines contributing as authors to the volume; with fourteen
scholars from around the world serving as editorial advisors; with
financial support provided by the John Templeton Foundation via
Search Institute; with frequent conversations occurring with
colleagues at Fuller Theological Seminary; and with the careful
attention of editorial work provided by Sage publications, this
handbook provides a remarkable contribution toward those
ends." —JOURNAL OF YOUTH AND THEOLOGY
*Journal of Youth and Theology (2007)*
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