Caring Liturgies: The Pastoral Power of Christian Ritual

by Susan Marie Smith

Book Overview

Caregiving practices in churches often center around listening and giving counsel, making referrals, and creating support groups for specific needs. In Caring Liturgies, Susan Marie Smith proposes that Christian ritual is both a method and a means for helping people through liminal times of transition and uncertainty, even vulnerability and fear. It teaches readers to recognize the ritual needs of fellow Christians and thus create post-baptismal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800697367
• ISBN13: 9780800697365
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"