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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... suggest that the spirituality of early adolescent boys has everything to do with their newly dis- covered sense of spirit . We further suggest that this sense of spirit has many qualities that are involved in the shaping of a boy's ...
... suggest that adults should go out of their way to make sure that the early adolescent boys in their homes , schools , churches , and communities have bad experiences so that they will enter their late adolescent years with a firmly ...
... 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 spirituality ...
... the chapters (1 and 2) by Robert Dykstra suggest, losing can be a very demoralizing experience for an early adolescent boy, especially because this is an age when boys place high value on competing successfully 12 Losers, Loners, and ...
... suggest , loneliness is likely to be a very distressing experience for an early adolescent boy because this is an age when boys tend to seek and to place high value on sharing each other's com- pany and on being members of a class ...