Book Launch: Understanding Spirituality and the Sacred in Social Work Practice: Spirited Conversations
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Book Launch: Understanding Spirituality and the Sacred in Social Work Practice: Spirited Conversations
Come join us for a time of light refreshments and spirited conversations as we launch this book out into the world! This book is brings together a remarkable array of voices and we are looking forward to being together. Please RSVP for catering purposes:
Date: 29th May
Time: 5:30 to 7:00pm
Location: Courtyard Cafe: The University of Sydney
Light refreshments will be served
About the book:
Social work is constantly epistemically evolving and embracing diverse bodies of knowledge to inform its ontology and practice frameworks.
Over the years, the impact of feminist, post-colonial, and queer theory, for example, has broadened the social work lens and invited a welcome departure from dominant Westernised, patriarchal, and positivist paradigms. However, the separation of the spiritual realm from casework, clinical, community, and group work traditions of social work remained steadfast. The last decade or so has seen forages into the issues of social work and spirituality. This examination into spirituality and social work has shown that for many service users, spiritual practices (be they religious or non-religious) are important in their lives and their way out of difficulties. Concurrently, relationships between socio-political movements and global religions have grown increasingly complex. To create a truly holistic approach to the needs of service users it is important that social work policy and practice give voice to these complexities and understand the place of spirituality within service delivery. This book critically reflects upon and discusses the intersecting role of spirituality in the lives of people who access social work services.
By gathering contributions from people with lived experience, practitioners, and academics, this book will explore a comprehensive range of issues, opening the area of spirituality to current critical, socio-political, and cultural thought. It will be of interest to all social work scholars, students, and practitioners.
For more information, see here.
Contents:
Part One - Exploring Spirituality
Chapter One – Introduction
Mary Jo McVeigh, Joel Hollier and Jioji Ravulo
Chapter Two – Today’s landscape: Global Spirituality, The Socio-Political, Social Work and Contested Spaces
Joel Hollier
Chapter Three – Hearing the chorus of unending, sunlit, inexpressible songs
Mary Jo McVeigh
Chapter Four – Integrated Self, Integrated Practice – my journey toward self-acceptance and how it enriched my social work practice
Joel Hollier
Chapter Five – A Spirited Reflection from my personal and professional journey across social work
Jioji Ravulo
Part Two - Experiencing Spirituality
Chapter Six – Considerations on Liberation theology and anti-oppressive frameworks as companions in social work
Mary Jo McVeigh and Pat McCarthy
Chapter Seven – “How does my dream-like self truly love and engage this dream-like world?”
Maria Losurdo
Chapter Eight – Forbidden, not forgotten: An exploration of two social worker's relationship with their Celtic spirituality
Mary Jo McVeigh and Kate Fylan
Chapter Nine – Islam and Social Work: A Peaceful Path of Service to Others
Rashid W. Flewellen
Chapter Ten – Storytelling through Ritual: Using a Jewish lens to understand the power of social work practice
Mim Fox and Rabbi Jacqueline Ninio
Chapter Eleven – A Greek Orthodox Perspective on Love (Agape) and Spirituality When Working with Men Who Use Violence
Emmanuel Kassiotis
Chapter Twelve – Protestant Christianity and Social Work: Resonance and Dissonance
Joel Hollier
Chapter Thirteen – Tapu o te tangata: A Māori perspective on spiritually responsive social work
Levi Fox
Chapter Fourteen – The Truth of Who One Is
Kylie Hennessey
Part Three - Engaging Spirituality
Chapter Fifteen – Disability, Spirituality and Social Work
Louise Gosbell and Joel Hollier
Chapter Sixteen – “They call the Spirituality of my Ancestors madness” – Embracing spiritually sensitive practice in child protection while working with children of African heritage and their families in Australia
Hilda Tafadzwa Mugadza, Peninah Kansiime and Shannon Said
Chapter Seventeen – Doubly Misunderstood – LGBTQIA+ experiences of social work and spirituality
Joel Hollier
Chapter Eighteen – Connecting external and internal worlds: Environmental, spiritual, and social
Pam Josephs
Chapter Nineteen – Faithfully Yours - A view of Frontline Social Work within the context of religion, faith, spirituality, and Domestic and Family Violence
Brigid Lang-Norris
Chapter Twenty – Advocacy, contracting, and spirited commitments: On saying “no” to a government contract
Douglas Hynd
Chapter Twenty-one – Spirited Healing: Restoring Wholeness to Survivors of forced displacement
Sacha Bermudez-Goldman
Chapter Twenty-two – Religious loss in the time of public health responses to COVID-19
Beth R. Crisp
Chapter Twenty-three – A.L.I.F.E. that is spiritual: A conversation with and about young people’s spiritual life
Gray, Wuntha Aung, Tiana Shankaran and Mary Jo Mc Veigh
Chapter Twenty-four – Community Development and the social capital in faith groups
Miriam Bevis
Chapter Twenty-five – Courage, Care, and Concluding Thoughts
Joel Hollier, Mary Jo McVeigh, and Jioji Ravulo
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