Abstract
Communities often engage in faith-based and/or secular rituals that may serve any number of purposes, including community bonding , reconciliation, and community-wide healing. The significance of such events to their respective communities and their relevance to social work practice with communities are explored in this chapter.
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Loue, S. (2017). Community Worship and Ritual. In: Handbook of Religion and Spirituality in Social Work Practice and Research. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7039-1_17
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