Spirituality across Disciplines: Research and Practice

Preface by Jane Erricker and Clive Erricker.- 1. Introduction: Contemporary understandings and applications of spirituality: An introduction; Marian de Souza.- Section 1: Mysticism and Secularism.- 2. Christian spirituality and religious mysticism: Adjunct, parallel or embedded concepts?; Bernadette Flanagan.- 3. Spirituality and mysticism literature from Iran; Haleh Rafi.- 4. Contemporary sociological approaches to spirituality; Andrew Singleton.- 5. The spiritual care and nurture of the non-religious in the caring professions; Jacqueline Watson.- Section 2: Education.- 6. Spirituality and early childhood education: Play; Gill Goodliff.- 7. Adolescent spirituality and education; Karen-Marie Yust.- 8. Spirituality and education: A framework; Robert London.- 9. Spirituality in contemplative education; Aostre Johnson.- 10. A unity of peoples, spirits, and lands: Companions of indigenous and migrant education; Linita Manu'atu, Mere K¬_pa, Pepe, M. and Taione, M.I.- 11. Towards a holistic teacher education: Spirituality and special education teacher training; Kaili Zhang and Deirdra I-Hwey Wu.- Section 3: Health, Social Care and Wellbeing.- 12. Spirituality and cognitive neuroscience: A partnership for refining maps of the mind; B. Les Lancaster.- 13. Spirituality: Perspectives from psychology; Maureen Miner and Martin Dowson.- 14. Religion, spirituality and social work; Sheila Furness.- 15. Spirituality and practice across the fields of social work and family studies; Anthony James.- 16. Spirituality and occupational therapy: Reflections on professional practice and future possibilities; Mick Collins.- 17. Spirituality and midwifery; Jenny Hall.- 18. Spiritual screening in community-based palliative care by the multi-disciplinary team; Julie Fletcher.- Section 4: Business, Social and Cultural Studies.- 19. Environmental issues and spirituality: Tracing the past and making contemporary connections; Jane Bone.- 20. The states of spiritual communication (in part):

BIOGRAPHY MARIAN DE SOUZADr Marian de Souza is an Honorary Fellow at Australian Catholic University and an Honorary Associate Professor at Federation University, Australia. She has published extensively about her research into the spirituality of young people and the implications for education. Her approach recognizes the complementarity of the cognitive, affective and spiritual dimensions and the role of nonconscious learning. Marian also has significant experience, nationally and internationally, in the supervision and examination of doctoral students in the field of spirituality in education and wellbeing.Marian is Chair, International Association for children's spirituality and an Honorary Academic Adviser to the Centre for Religion and Spiritual Education, Institute of Education, Hong Kong. As well, she is a member of the international editorial boards for several international journals.Marian is available for consultancies in schools and other educational organizations and for the supervision of higher education research students. Her teaching and research expertise are in the following areas:-Children and young people as spiritual beings with corresponding implications for learning across the curriculum;-Young people's spirituality and the implications for the religious education curriculum;-Using the arts to teach across the curriculum;-Interspiritual and intercultural education for inclusivity, social cohesion and wellbeing;-The transmission of the religious, spiritual and cultural heritage amongst ethnic communities in contemporary pluralistic societies
BIOGRAPHY JANE BONEDr Jane Bone is involved in research in the area of early childhood education in Australia (and formerly in New Zealand). Her expertise is in holistic and alternative approaches to pedagogy and learning, including research involving Steiner, Montessori andReggio Emilia based preschools. Her main research area explores spirituality in early childhood settings.  Taking a contemporary