Kathleen J. Greider

Agency, Culture, and Human Personhood

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“I did not expect to feel more hopeful after reading this book-but that was its effect on me. To arguments that show how we become victims or perpetrators of violence through complex cultural processes, Hoeft adds a much-needed constructive dimension: culture constricts our agency, yes, but also enables us to embody the capacity to resist violence.”

Living Devotions

“Living Devotions is one of those rare books that will enliven the imaginations of students even as it deepens the insights of scholars and practitioners. Used as a textbook, this captivating portrayal of an Italian and Sicilian Catholic immigrant community will engagingly illustrate skilled ethnographic research and analysis for students and teachers in many parts of the academy--especially history, religious and theological studies, and psychology. At the same time, in Living Devotions, Mary Moschella provides for scholars and practitioners in many fields a stunning example of a truly interdisciplinary work that illuminates the wonderfully complex relatedness between history, religious practices, ethnic diversity and particularity, immigration, and care for the human soul.”

Misunderstanding Stories

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“Melinda McGarrah Sharp does what few interculturalists seem able to bear--she makes our intercultural conflicts the focus of her work and our learning. The result is a book that helps us explore profound challenges: the inevitability of harming one another, deep relational breaches amid misunderstood cultural differences, self-reflexivity and complicity after colonialism, linguistic chasms, and unresolvable tensions. Adequate postcolonial interculturality is not avoiding these conflicts, but navigating them constructively. McGarrah Sharp illuminates that path.”

The Contemplative Counselor

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“A contemplative way of being lays a foundation for healing in any approach to counseling. Whether you are a student of counseling or a counselor wearied by the pressures of clinical work, Nolasco's examination of the Christian tradition's resources for contemplation offers a way toward the holy human relatedness that motivates most of us who offer care for those who suffer. Descriptions of using contemplation with individuals in troubled relationships and also with survivors of the Rwandan genocide remind us that contemplation's value is personal but also relational and political.”

Under the Oak Tree

Church Leadership & Ministry

“These authors envision the quality of conversation that happens when Christians' radical openness to otherness is predicated on our willingness to be changed, even radically, by the encounter. The book's classroom value will be highest for students unfamiliar with practical theology. Similarly structured, the chapters analytically and persuasively develop conversation as a crucial metaphor for practical theology and its subdisciplines.”