{"product_id":"spiritual-care-in-african-religious-emmanuel-y-lartey-9781647126902","title":"Spiritual Care in African Religious Cultures: Sacred Wisdom for the Care of Persons in an Intercultural World","description":"\u003cp\u003eA comprehensive resource on the nature and value of African religious life\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePortrayals of African spirituality have been tainted in the past by harmful stereotypes and negative judgments or have altogether ignored African religions. Very few scholarly works have encompassed the depth of how spiritual care is conceptualized and practiced in African and African diasporic communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpiritual Care in African Religious Cultures offers insights into the nature and value of African religious life while also giving persons of different religious persuasions information about African beliefs and practices. This book reveals how practitioners of African traditional religions and people who engage in African spirituality draw on their own spiritual traditions to help them live satisfying and productive lives. Lartey addresses key beliefs about the divine realm, ancestors, evil, health, death, and life, as well as practices such as ceremonies, manifestation of spirit, naming, and healing rites inherent in African and African Heritage religions, which are utilized in providing care for persons amid the challenges of living. He invites us to go beyond maligning and misrepresenting African religions and to enter into the therapeutic and life-giving realities of African life and thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpiritual Care in African Religious Cultures is a comprehensive resource on African understandings of spiritual care and has the potential to enhance communal relationships for multicultural communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Emmanuel Y. Lartey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1647126908\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781647126902\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Georgetown University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Emmanuel Y. Lartey","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48623514616063,"sku":"9781647126902","price":149.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/spiritual-care-in-african-religious-emmanuel-y-lartey-9781647126902","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}