Spiritual Care as the Foundation for a Child’s Religious Education

This article outlines spiritual care as the foundation for a child’s religious education. The elements of spiritual care are described by identifying how God concepts form in the young, by naming children’s inherent spiritual needs, by offering perspectives from human spirituality research over the...

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Main Author: Bellous, Joyce E. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI 2021
In: Religions
Year: 2021, Volume: 12, Issue: 11
Further subjects:B children’s spirituality
B emotional literacy
B Religious Education
B Spiritual care
B worldview formation
B cognitive literacy
B social literacy
B conceptual learning
B imaginative literacy
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