Children's spirituality: a systematic review

• Autor(a) principal: Viana, Helena Brandão
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Guimarães, Roberta Rodrigues de Oliveira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Horizonte - Revista de Estudos de Teologia e Ciências da Religião
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.pucminas.br/index.php/horizonte/article/view/26080
• topic: Spirituality; Inventory; Sistematic Review; Children; Espiritualidad; Inventorio; Revisión Sistemática; Ninos; Espiritualidade; Inventório; Revisão sistemática; Crianças; Espiritualidade; Educação

Spirituality is not only present in adults. Children have spontaneous and genuine experiences with the sacred. This research aimed to conduct a systematic review of the literature to access studies on Children's Spirituality. To this end, a survey was carried out in the databases: CAPES, SCIELO and ERIC in the period from 2010 to 2020. Studies were included that evaluated some facet of spirituality in children and adolescents, published in English, Portuguese, or Spanish, in the period between 2010 and 2020. Of the 380 articles identified, after initial exclusions, 80 were classified for complete reading and 15 for qualitative analysis. It was seen that there are still few studies on children's spirituality, mainly in Brazil, and most studies used interviews for data collection.