I don't exactly know which age span you mean by middle childhood. You might find the book under this link as a helpful starting point: http://www.childtrends.org/Files/Child_Trends-2002_01_01_FR_ReligionSpiritAdol.pdf
thanks a lot, it's a quite helpful peace of paper. I am doing a research about the developemnt of individuality in middle childhood. I am quite surprised that individualisation seems to be a developmental task of later years in childrens development but i find a lot of hints for this in middle childhood.....
Even the openness toward spiritual impressions as an individual initiative seems to be quide interessting to me and not at all sufficient covered from the current debate.
My colleague, Connie Kvarfordt, and I did a national study of social work practitioners focusing on their attitudes and behaviors relative to spirituality and practice with children and adolescents. Just added three articles on this research in Research Gate. - Michael Sheridan