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	-	Interview with Peter L. Benson
	-	Reflections on the State of the Field
	-	Not Blank Slates: Recognizing Children's Own Spiritual Worldviews
	-	Getting to the Heart of Spirituality
	-	Muslim and Scientist: An Interview with Shiva Khalili
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•	Youth Voices
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Interviews and Essays

This section includes interviews with and essays from scholars, researchers, and practitioners in the field of spiritual development in childhood and adolescence. If you would like to suggest a topic, an author, or an interviewee, please click here.

Interview with Peter L. Benson - An Interview with Peter L. Benson, co-director of the Center for Spiritual Development in Childhood and Adolescence
Reflections on the State of the Field - By Eugene C. Roehlkepartain. Why embark on new study of young people's spiritual development? A pressing societal need, high scholarly interest and challenges, and potential benefits to the social sciences, to society, and to children and youth.
Not Blank Slates: Recognizing Children's Own Spiritual Worldviews - By K. Helmut Reich. Thoughts on children and adolescents as active agents in their own spiritual development.
Getting to the Heart of Spirituality - by Melanie Wilson. Reflections on incidents at two different conferences lead to insights on how spiritual development fits into the "secular" world of youth-serving organizations.
Muslim and Scientist: An Interview with Shiva Khalili - Learn about the model of human psychology that Shiva Khalili has developed based on theistic presumptions.

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