Caring Liturgies: The Pastoral Power of Christian Ritual

Acknowledged author Susan Marie Smith wrote Caring Liturgies: The Pastoral Power of Christian Ritual comprising 160 pages back in 2012. Textbook and eTextbook are published under ISBN 0800697367 and 9780800697365. Since then Caring Liturgies: The Pastoral Power of Christian Ritual textbook was available to sell back to BooksRun online for the top buyback price or rent at the marketplace.

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 rites of passage and healing that might strengthen and support them in the fulfillment of their ministries.