Spirituality for youth-work : new vocabulary, concepts and practices / edited by Phil Daughtry and Stuart Devenish.

This book has its origins in a two-day conference event entitled 'Burning Conversations, ' held at Tabor College of Higher Education, Adelaide, South Australia, over October 1-2, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section 1. Social context. 'The young ones' / Joel McKerrow -- Spirituality, religion and youth in secular times / David Tacey -- Spiritual education: drawing out what is within / David Tacey -- Spirituality in a secular age: possibilities for youth work / Trudi Cooper -- Section 2. Identity formation. 'Napkin maps' / Joel McKerrow -- Constructing who I am: exploring the contribution of religion and spirituality to younger peoples' identity / Rowan Lewis -- Anti-suppressant youth work: exploring identity and spirituality for practitioners / Sean Lappin -- Created to creat: balancing spiritual development in an indigenous holistic framework / Rod Baxter and Merinda Jackson -- Section 3. Youth work as instilling justice. 'Little fishes' / Joel McKerrow -- Angry young men and the spiritual intelligence of peace-building as a youth work practice / Ben Lohmeyer -- Conceptual understandings of justice: enhancing the human flourishing work of youth work practitioners / Tracey Price -- Life, loss and lock-up: spiritual care among incarcerated young people in South Australia / Nigel Uppill -- Section 4. Education and youth work. 'The low road or the high?' / Joel McKerrow -- Artful reimagining: enhancing spiritual resonance through storytelling and the arts / Jean Caldow -- A storytelling spirituality: narrative as an alternative approach to spiritual discovery and learning / Kirsten Macaitis and Phil Daughtry -- Educating for the conversation: religion, spirituality, and secular youth work / Dave Fagg -- Conclusion / Maxine Green.

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This book addresses a systemic gap in existing studies on human services and youth work. While the notion of spirituality does make rare appearances in such literature, it is often vaguely defined and underdeveloped both as a concept and as a mode of practice. This ambiguity is symptomatic of the broader shift in the sociological context of Western and global societies that has been referred to variously as post-modern, late-modern and post-secular. From the perspective of the relationship between human development and the spiritual/theological, we live in a "time between times". We have not y.

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