Spirituality and Social Work

MARGARET HOLLOWAY is Professor of Social Work and Director of the Centre for Spirituality Studies at the Department of Social Sciences, University of Hull, UK.She is credited with the first empirical work in the UK on social work in dying and bereavement and social work and spirituality. She is founder of the Interdisciplinary Spirituality Group at the University of Hull. BERNARD MOSS is Professor of Social Work Education and Spirituality, and Director of theCentrefor Spirituality and Health at Staffordshire University, UK. He isa Senior Fellow and National Teaching Fellow of the Higher EducationAcademy, UK. His teaching interests include death, dying and bereavement; mediation studies, and spirituality, religious belief and social care.

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"Spirituality in social work is a topic that has been neglected for far too long. This well-crafted and well-informed book plays a vitally important role in putting these important issues firmly on the agenda. It is a contribution to the literature that I very much welcome." - Dr Neil Thompson, Writer, Teacher and Adviser (www.neilthompson.info) "This book, by two leading writers in the field in the UK, is clearly the product of their combined, mature reflections. They have produced a book that will serve to anchor the topic of spirituality in the mainstream of social work education and practice. I wholeheartedly recommend it..." - Dr Russell Whiting, Lecturer in Social Work and Care, University of Sussex, UK 'Holloway and Moss bring us back to the soul of social work in this timely and beautifully written book.' - Community Care 'Spirituality and Social Work marks out its territory as a life-affirming text that champions the need for spirituality to be integral to authentic social work.' - British Journal of Social Work