{"product_id":"caring-liturgies-the-pastoral-power-of-christian-ritual-9780800697365","title":"Caring Liturgies: The Pastoral Power of Christian Ritual","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaregiving practices in churches often center around listening and giving counsel, making referrals, and creating support groups for specific needs. In \u003cb\u003eCaring Liturgies\u003c\/b\u003e, 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 rites of passage and healing that might strengthen and support them in the fulfillment of their ministries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book extends the usefulness of denominational occasional services books and other resources by suggesting ways to build a rite around a central symbolic action, pointing out issues of ritual honesty and ethics, and identifying skills and attributes necessary to preparing and leading a rite. Numerous narrative examples help to flesh out the principles and illustrate the key argument: that rituals are necessary means to enable human growth and maturity, both through times of suffering and times of transition, and that ritual-making leaders are central to the ongoing health of the church.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susan Marie Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Augsburg Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780800697365\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristian Century\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/16\/2013 pg. 27\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSmith, Susan Marie:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusan Marie Smith\u003c\/b\u003e, an Episcopal priest and teacher of liturgy, ritual, and preaching, is rector of St. Alban's Episcopal Church in Bexley, Ohio. She received her PhD in liturgy and ritual at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, and is author of \u003ci\u003eChristian Ritualizing and the Baptismal Process: Liturgical Explorations toward a Realized Baptismal Ecclesiology\u003c\/i\u003e (2011). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Augsburg Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40509910941811,"sku":"9.7808E+12","price":32.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_30c3d20e-a0ed-45e3-a865-a771a11bbf31.jpg?v=1665581320","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/caring-liturgies-the-pastoral-power-of-christian-ritual-9780800697365","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}