Wising Up: Ritual Resources for Women of Faith in their Journey of Aging - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1608992268 ISBN 13: 9781608992263

Publisher: Wipf and Stock, 2010

Synopsis

Wising Up provides rituals and guidance for women as they age. It helps them make the often difficult life transitions wisely and in the context of their faith communities. Instead of focusing exclusively on time-worn thresholds such as menopause, marriage and divorce, and dying, the book contains affirming rituals on: coming to terms with the changes in one's body; learning to live with and depend on an item like a walker or a hearing aid; giving up one's driver's license; deciding how to give away one's household contents; and being orphaned. In addition to the rituals--and guidelines on how to create one's own rituals--the book contains a number of short stories, hymns, prayers, quotations, and poems to help ease women through the aging process. Contributors: Susan Beehler, Teresa Berger, Kathy Black, Ruth Duck, Heather Murray Elkins, Brigitte Enzner-Probst, Martha Whitmore Hickman, Martha Ann Kirk, Mary Elizabeth Mullino Moore, Susan Roll, Deborah Sokolove, Linda J. Vogel, and Janet Walton.

About this title

About the Author:

(2001) Kathy Black is Professor of Homiletics & Liturgics, the School of Theology at Claremont, and an ordained United Methodist minister. She has extensive experience in various fields of disability: she worked as chaplain at Gallaudet University (an outstanding college for the hearing impaired); she pastored two churches for deaf persons; and she taught Deaf Ministry classes and Ministry With Persons With Disabilities at Wesley Theological Seminary, Pacific School of Religion, and the School of Theology at Claremont.

Heather Murray Elkins is professor of worship and liturgical studies at Drew University Theological School in Madison, New Jersey. She is the author of

Teresa Berger is professor of liturgical studies and Thomas E. Golden Professor of Catholic Theology at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale Divinity School. She is the author, most recently, of "Gender Differences and the Making of Liturgical History" and co-editor of two previous volumes from the Yale ISM Liturgy Conferences.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1608992268
• ISBN 13: 9781608992263
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Black Kathy