著者

鵜生川 恵美子 Ubukawa Emiko

出版者

育英大学・育英短期大学

雑誌

育英短期大学研究紀要 (ISSN:09143351)

巻号頁・発行日

no.36, pp.41-54, 2019-03-15

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Spirituality has been discussed as an important topic in many other settings as well as inmedical ones. It has also been considered to possibly emerge when people are under criticalcircumstances such as death, dying, and bereavement. Therefore, spirituality can be said to be depicted in death-related literature for children.There are, however, a limited number of researches on death in childrenʼs literature. Furthermore,few studies have been published on spirituality in death-related childrenʼs literature. This article presents a brief overview of the trends in academic researches on death-relatedEnglish literature for children and then introduces Dr. Corrʼs research on spirituality in suchchildrenʼs literature published in 2004 as an indicator for further research on spirituality inEnglish childrenʼs literature. It is hoped that his research on spirituality in death-related childrenʼs literature will be aspringboard for similar researches on Japanese childrenʼs literature and a comparative studybetween English childrenʼs literature and Japanese one in the spiritual setting.