Losers, Loners, and Rebels: The Spiritual Struggles of BoysWestminster John Knox Press, 01/01/2007 - 204 من الصفحات The early years of adolescence are a tumultuous time, full of challenges and opportunities that can shape one's whole life. In recent years several books have analyzed this period of life for girls, but this is the first book that investigates the interior life of boys as they develop their sense of self and begin the spiritual journey that will carry them throughout their lives. The authors contend that adolescent boys often experience themselves at various times as losers, loners, and rebels. As self-defined losers, boys begin to realize self-awareness; as loners they begin to understand their own relatedness to the larger world; as rebels they gain a sense of self-sufficiency. Through these common experiences of life, boys gain self-awareness, self-transcendence, and self-sufficiency, concepts that take root in the spirituality that will last their lifetime. |
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... here is a twelve-year-old; a boy as young as ten would not necessarily be excluded from this cohort group, and a fourteen- year-old is on the verge of passing out of this group portrait altogether. To put it another way, these are the ...
... chapters that we have written here are a reflection of our own efforts to reconnect with our own boyhoods. They are not perfect models of how to go about reconnecting with one's boyhood , but they are 4 Losers, Loners, and Rebels.
... here? How could men misrepresent their boyhoods to such an egregious degree? Do they really expect us to believe them? More impor- tantly, do they believe it themselves? Then, however, we posed a somewhat different question: Is there ...
... here, we can state the basic thesis of this book. We do not expect our readers to endorse this thesis immediately, but we hope that you will at least give us the benefit of the doubt . Simply put. 1One way to make this case would be to ...
... here , we suggest that there are three general types of neg- atively perceived experiences that contribute to an early adolescent boy's emerging spirituality and that they correspond , more or less , to the three man- ifestations of ...