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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... connection ” ( 36–37 ) . Lack or loss of connection is , for Pollack , the basic , underlying problem , for loneliness and shame result from weak or nonexistent connections . He emphasizes that a boy's desire to remain within his ...
... connected to their own boyhood . Much of the disconnectedness that today's fathers feel from their own sons is due to the fact that their fathers were not there for them when they were boys , but we also think that another reason is ...
... connected to all that is has its local confirmations in the boy's con- nectedness to other boys , to heroes of the present and past , and especially to the spirit that he feels inside himself . The Quality of Self - Sufficiency The ...
... connections between these three expressions of the early adolescent boy's spirituality and the spiri- tuality of adult men, but making this case is beyond our present concerns.1 NEGATIVE EXPERIENCES GIVE RISE TO SPIRITUALITY Now that we ...
... connected to , or in the presence of , the One who is there when no one else is present . Thus , if a boy did not experience loneliness , he would never experience solitude , for loneliness is the precondition for the experience of ...