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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... would like to thank our male students who have, in various ways, shared with us their stories of what they experienced as boys in early adolescence. Introduction This is a book that focuses on early adolescent ix Acknowledgments.
... male. We teach the kinds of courses that, directly or indirectly, invite these young men to share their own lives with us, and, on occasion, with their classmates. They share with us through the papers that they write, or by asking us ...
... males who come from solidly middle-class backgrounds. Not only that, we all went to church when we were in our early adolescent years, and our church backgrounds fall within that narrow swath of what is commonly called “mainline” or ...
... male spirituality in this book in a par- ticular way, specifically as a boy's, and later a man's, capacity for self-awareness, self-transcendence, and self-sufficiency. These three capacities suggest a spir- ituality with which we as ...
... male ” of her classroom — the boy who stood out as the most popular , good looking , athletic , and intelligent among his peers . His mother told of a time a couple of weeks prior to the meeting when her son got into the car after ...