Caring Cultures: How Congregations Respond to the Sick
Overview
Skilled pastoral caregiving, Susan Dunlap argues, requires an understanding of the culture of the local congregation where it is practiced. An engaging example par excellence, Caring Cultures looks closely at three very different congregations’ responses to the body in times of illness: an African American congregation in the Apostolic Holiness tradition; a Euro-American mainstream Protestant church; and the Latino members in a Roman Catholic parish. With vivid examples drawn from the author’s interviews and observations, this beautifully written book shows how each congregation has developed divergent ways of thinking about the body, habits of responding to it, and understandings of God’s response to the body’s pain or peril. The author offers unusually rich descriptions of caregiving as it is displayed in these three congregations, integrating both well-explained theory and moving personal stories.
- Title: Caring Cultures: How Congregations Respond to the Sick
- Author: Susan Dunlap
- Publisher: Baylor University Press
- Print Publication Date: 2009
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Church work with the sick › North Carolina--Durham; Church work with the sick › North Carolina; Care of the sick › North Carolina--Durham; Care of the sick › North Carolina; Care of the sick › Religious aspects--Christianity; Religious gatherings › Christianity
- ISBNs: 9781602585171, 9781602586963, 1602585172, 1602586969
- Resource ID: LLS:CRNGCLTRSHWCNGR
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T23:00:40Z