This study examined drawings of children’s concepts of paradise categorized by age, gender, and religious-cultural differences. Participants were Sunni Turkish Muslim children born in France and who attend Islamic religious education at France's Strasbourg Yunus Emre Mosque on weekends. Three superordinate and 14 subordinate qualitative categories were formed from the children’s drawings analyzed by the phenomenographic method. Although concrete descriptions of heaven were seen in the drawings by children of all ages, abstract depictions increased with age. Whereas drawings of heaven by girls depicted love and compassion, boys’ drawings represented power. Although there are commonalities between the descriptions by children of Muslim background and children from other religious backgrounds and cultures, the children’s particular religious and cultural structures were reflected in their representations of paradise. Recommendations from this study are given for the nature of the education children receive regarding death and heaven and hell.

这项研究检查了按年龄、性别和宗教文化差异分类的儿童天堂概念图。参与者是出生在法国的逊尼派土耳其穆斯林儿童，他们周末在法国斯特拉斯堡尤努斯埃姆雷清真寺接受伊斯兰宗教教育。通过现象学方法对儿童绘画进行分析，形成了三个上级和14个下级定性类别。虽然各个年龄段的孩子都在绘画中看到了对天堂的具体描述，但随着年龄的增长，抽象的描述越来越多。女孩的天堂图画描绘了爱和同情，而男孩的图画代表了力量。尽管穆斯林背景的儿童与其他宗教背景和文化的儿童的描述存在共性，孩子们特殊的宗教和文化结构反映在他们对天堂的描绘中。本研究针对儿童接受的有关死亡、天堂和地狱的教育的性质提出了建议。