Walking Together: Working with Women from Diverse Spiritual Traditions

An essential guide for domestic violence advocates and social workers. This groundbreaking anthology for domestic violence shelters and community-based programs, designed to:

• Educate advocates about how to work effectively with women from a wide variety of religious and spiritual traditions;
• Offer concrete strategies for making domestic violence programs sensitive and welcoming to women from diverse faith backgrounds; and
• Provide suggestions for effective collaboration between domestic violence programs and religious communities. Walking Together includes articles about American Indian/Alaskan Native Spirituality, Buddhism, Catholicism (in Anglo and Latino communities), Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Protestantism (mainline, Evangelical, and Black Church).