Spirituality is an area of thought and practice that is attracting an increasing amount of attention and interest from social work practitioners, theorists, and instructors. Spirituality and Social Work: Selected Canadian Readings explores the history, practice, and diversity of faith traditions with which spirituality and social work are intertwined.
Exciting and relevant chapters in this collection include:

• Spirituality As a Guiding Construct in the Development of Canadian Social Work
• Reframing Spirituality, Reconceptualizing Change: Possibilities for Critical Social Work
• From Ecology to Spirituality and Social Justice
• Making Circles: Renewing First Nations Ways of Helping
• Black Churches in Canada: Vehicles for Fostering Community Development in African-Canadian Communities
• Islamic Theology and Prayer: Relevance for Social Work Practice

John Coates is Professor of Social Work at St. Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick. He is also Chair of the Canadian Society for Spirituality and Social Work and has written on the relevance of ecology and spirituality for social work.

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John R. Graham is Murray Fraser Professor of Community Economic Development, Faculty of Social Work, University of Calgary. He is the author, with A. Al-Krenawi, of Helping Professional Practice with Indigenous Peoples: The Bedouin-Arab Case (2009) and editor, with J. Coates and B. Schwartzentruber, of Canadian Social Work and Spirituality: Current Readings and Approaches (2007).

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"[The authors] make a significant contribution to the exploration of spritiuality in the field of social work... I particularly liked the chapter Communities in Cooperation. This chapter will meet the highest expectations of BSW students; it is clear, readable, interesting, informative and it challenges the stereotypes students may hold of Mennonite culture."— “Jane Birbeck, University College of the Cariboo