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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... Loneliness as a Condition of Boyhood 4. Solitude and God : A Lonely Boy's Allies ix 1 27 15445 1120 77 99 Part III : Rebels and the Struggle for Self - Sufficiency Donald Capps 5. The Making of the Reliably Religious Boy 6. The ...
... loneliness that may last throughout boyhood and continue into adult life . ( xix ) Pollack focuses especially on boys ' experiences of loneliness , shame , and dis- connection , and raises the question whether the “ attention deficit ...
... lonely. One or even a few isolated experiences of being alone may be experienced as exciting, as a chance to do whatever one wants to do without being subject to the suspicions and inquisitions of parents or the annoying presence of ...
... loneliness — perhaps especially his loneliness when he is in a group or crowd — that inspires his sense of self- transcendence , of his connectedness to all that is . As the chapters ( 3 and 4 ) by Allan Cole suggest , loneliness is ...
... loneliness, the loner, and self-transcendence, it is especially appropriate that Cole gives much attention to the boy's understanding of God and contrasts the God of loneliness with the God of solitude. Having introduced the two images ...