Affirming Presence: Spiritual Life and Friendship with Adolescents with Developmental Disabilities

Autor/in	Conner, Benjamin T.
Titel	Affirming Presence: Spiritual Life and Friendship with Adolescents with Developmental Disabilities
Quelle	In: International Journal of Children's Spirituality, 15 (2010) 4, S.331-339 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1364-436X
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Social Isolation; Developmental Disabilities; Friendship; Adolescents; Religious Factors; Spiritual Development; Christianity; Psychological Patterns + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziale Isolation; Entwicklungsstörung; Freundschaft; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Christentum
Abstract	If spirituality is, among other things, a matter of "connectedness", then how do we nurture spirituality in adolescents with developmental disabilities who seem largely disconnected? This article advocates the practice of friendship as one important Christian model of spiritual connectedness that finds its origins in the initiative of God and addresses the fundamental human experience of loneliness and fear of negation. I argue that by participating together with adolescents with developmental disabilities in Christian practices, especially the practice of friendship, we open up spaces where their spirituality and ours will be nurtured. (Contains 5 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10