Childish Concept of God in Contemporary Iranian and American Poetry

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Awareness of the concept of God is very important for human beings especially when he is only a child. Because this notion can change his attitude toward God when he is younger and leads him to a kind of religiosity. If his concept of God in earlier ages were a positive attitude and take him as a beneficent, omnipotent and almighty, the conclusion would be essentially different.
This article is a comparative study about concept of God in Iranian and American children’s literature from theological, Philosophical and psychological point of view. Due to the fact that children cannot understand abstract ideas, in both literatures we attempted to demonstrate God in concrete phenomena such as nature. This paper will answers to three basic questions:...

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