Author(s): Robert Coles (Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities, Harvard University, USA)

A - Z Parenting

For 30 years Robert Coles has been talking and listening to children all over the world and recording their responses to crises, to hardship and sorrow and to moral and political pressure. In this one of eight volumes in his Pulitzer Prize-winning series, "Children of Crisis", he speaks to and for the religious and spiritual lives of children, conveying their views of salvation and righteousness, their experience of God and their ways of understanding the ultimate meaning of their own lives. The author's approach is to interview large numbers of children, aiming to gain their trust and get to the root of their beliefs through drawings, poems and conversation. He has befriended Christian, Jewish, Muslim and non-religious children throughout the world, and in this book sets out to present their deepest thoughts and feelings in words and pictures.