The International Journal of Children's Spirituality
In September 1996, responding to a growing interest and concern across education and society generally the project team launched the International Journal of Children's Spirituality (IJCS).
Aiming to provide an international and multi-cultural forum for those involved in research and the development of children's and young people's spirituality the journal considers what is meant by 'spirituality' and its relevance for schooling and society.
The IJCS has recently been accepted into the Arts and Humanities Citation Index®. This demonstrates the growing interest in the subject of children's spirituality and the quality of the Journal.
Since 1998 the IJCS has been published and distributed through Taylor & Francis. For further information, and to view the abstracts, please visit the journal's website.
Latest Issue: Volume 14 Issue 3
The latest issue of the journal includes:
Spirituality and well-being
Clive Erricker; Jane Erricker
Happiness, emotional well-being and mental health - what has children's spirituality to offer?
Tony Eaude
Free online access to the journal
Membership of the Association for Children's Spirituality includes hard copies of the latest edition of the International Journal of Children's Spirituality and free access to all back copies of the e-journal via the members' pages.
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Free access to editorials
The IJCS has made the editorials from volumes 9 - 13 available free of charge. Please use the links below to access them.
Volume 13
- Issue 1: Preface
- Issue 2: Editorial: What legacy do we leave the next generation?
- Issue 3: Editorial.
Volume 12
- Issue 1: Editorial: Valuing the language of intergenerational wisdom in the spiritual education of children.
- Issue 2: Editorial: Spirituality of children and young people: a consideration of some perspectives and implications from research contextualized by Australia.
- Issue 3: Editorial: Coming out and coming in: atheism and Burma as part of the conversation on spiritual discourse.
Volume 11
- Issue 1: Preface.
- Issue 2: Editorial: Children's spirituality and children's rights.
- Issue 3: Editorial: No problem here? Multiculturalism, integration and spiritual capital.
Volume 10
- Issue 1: Editorial: 'God's away on business': does this mean we are spiritually bereft?'.
- Issue 2: Editorial: Reflecting on faith schools: an exercise in the sociological imagination.
- Issue 3: Editorial: Thinking about difference.
Volume 9