Caring Liturgies: The Pastoral Power of Christian Ritual

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Caring Liturgies Caring Liturgies The Pastoral Power of Christian Ritual SUSAN MARIE SMITH Fortress Press Minneapolis CARING LITURGIES The Pastoral Power of Christian Ritual Copyright © 2012 Fortress Press. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical articles or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Visit http://www .augsburgfortress.org/copyrights/contact.asp or write to Permissions, Augsburg Fortress, Box 1209, Minneapolis, MN 55440. Unless otherwise noted, scripture quotations are the author’s own translation or from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA, and are used with permission. Cover design: Tory Herman Cover images © iStockphoto.com/Chepko Daril; © iStockphoto.com/Dirk Rietschel Book design: PerfecType, Nashville, TN Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available ISBN 978-0-8006-9736-5 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z329.48-1984. Manufactured in the U.S.A. 16 15 14 13 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ...