Bloomsbury Academic The Bloomsbury Handbook of Solitude, Silence and Loneliness

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Solitude, Silence and Loneliness is the first major account integrating research on solitude, silence and loneliness from across academic disciplines and across the lifespan. The editors explore how being alone – in its different forms, positive and negative, as solitude, silence and loneliness – is learned and developed, and how it is experienced in childhood and youth, adulthood and old age. Philosophical, psychological, historical, cultural and religious issues are addressed by distinguished scholars from Europe, North America and Asia. Review "This handbook invites us to think about solitude and loneliness in a variety of ways, sometimes converging and sometimes diverging in a very productive and stimulating way." --Noah W. Sobe, Professor of Cultural and Educational Policy Studies, Loyola University Chicago, USAThis handbook invites us to think about solitude and loneliness in a variety of ways, sometimes converging and sometimes diverging in a very productive and stimulating way.Noah W. Sobe, Professor of Cultural and Educational Policy Studies, Loyola University Chicago, USA About the Author Julian Stern is Professor of Education and Religion at Bishop Grosseteste University, UK. He is General Secretary of ISREV - the International Seminar on Religious Education and Values - an association of religious education scholars from more than 34 countries, and Editor of the British Journal of Religious Education.Christopher A. Sink is Research Associate, Western Washington University Department of Psychology, USA.Wong Ping Ho is Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of International Education at The Education University of Hong Kong (formerly the Hong Kong Institute of Education), China.Malgorzata Walejko is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Pedagogy at the University of Szczecin, Poland.