Encounters for Change Interreligious Cooperation in the Care of Individuals and Communities

Name: Encounters for Change Interreligious Cooperation in the Care of Individuals and Communities
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ISBN: 9781608995219

ISBN-10: 1608995216

ISBN-13: 9781608995219

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Authors: Dagmar Grefe

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Weaving together insights from social psychology, theology, and experiences of interfaith religious leaders, Dagmar Grefe develops practical strategies that support interreligious contact at a grassroots level. She shows that by working together, religious communities can more effectively address global and local problems that all people face: poverty, environmental destruction, and armed conflict. Grefe describes interreligious cooperation at work in local communities. She develops tools that equip religious leaders with the interreligious competence needed for spiritual care and counseling with individual persons in crisis. Cooperation is not only effective in the care for communities and…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date: 11/14/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



List of Tables and Figures


Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction



"I See Your Mosque from My Church Steeple"


Religion in the Global Village



What Keeps Us Apart?


Perceptions, Clans, Labels, Fears



Religious Communities in Connection


Intergroup Contact



Transforming Relations in Interreligious Encounters



"Not Only in Disaster!"


Religious Communities Working Together



Tending to Our Souls: Interreligious Spiritual Care



"There Was a Priest, a Rabbi, and a Minister"


Interreligious Issues in Clinical Supervision



Why Engage Religious Diversity?


Interreligious Encounters through a Theological Lens



Conclusion


Bibliography


Subject/Name Index