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Grief: Contemporary Theory and the Practice of Ministry is unavailable, but you can change that!

The experience of grief has been a source of intrigue and curiosity throughout history, and it continues to stimulate thought and theory in various fields of study. Unfortunately, these fields tend to function in isolation from each other. The result is a substantial disconnect between grief research, theory, and care—which has evolved greatly over the last two decades—and ministerial practice. ...

histories, our cultures, our perspectives, and our values. Some losses may be neglected or ignored not only by individuals but also by entire groups, societies, or cultures. Author and professor of gerontology Kenneth Doka (1989, 2002, 2008) has offered the contemporary grief field the important concept of disenfranchised grief. Grief that is disenfranchised is “not openly acknowledged, socially validated, or publicly observed” (Doka 2002, 5). That is, there is no public or social acknowledgment
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