The Wiley-Blackwell companion to practical theology / edited by Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore.

Pt. 1. Way of life : shaping faith among believers in home and society
Suffering / Pamela Cooper-White
Healing / Susan J. Dunlap
Playing / Jaco Hamman
Eating / Dorothy C. Bass
Loving / Herbert Anderson
Consuming / Katherine Turpin
Blessing / Christian Scharen
Pt. II. Method : studying theology in practice in library and field
Case study method / Daniel S. Schipani
Psychological theory / Lee H. Butler
Hermeneutical theory / Sally A. Brown
Quantitative method / Hans Schilderman
Congregational studies / James R. Nieman
Ritual theory / Edward Foley
Social policy / Pamela D. Couture
The use of Scripture / Paul Ballard
Poetics / Heather Walton
Emancipatory theory and method / Nancy J. Ramsay
Feminist theory / Elaine Graham
Womanist theory / Evelyn L. Parker
Narrative approaches / R. Ruard Ganzevoort
Ethnography / Mary Clark Moschella
Participatory action research / Elizabeth Conde-Frazier
Theories of practice / Ted A. Smith
Action theories / Robert Mager
Pt. III. Curriculum : educating for ministry and faith in classroom, congregation, and community
Pastoral care / Barbara McClure
Homiletics / John S. McClure
Worship / Don E. Saliers
Religious education / Carol Lakey Hess
Religious leadership / Michael Jinkins
Jeffery L. Tribble / Evangelism
Spirituality / Claire E. Wolfteich
Ethics / Miguel A. De La Torre
Contextual education / Emily Click
Systematic theology / Mary McClintock Fulkerson
Historical theology / James M. Brandt
Biblical theology / Michael Joseph Brown
Integration in theological education / Kathleen A. Cahalan
Pt. IV. Discipline : defining history and context in guild and global setting
Race and racism / Dale P. Andrews
Gender, sexism, and heterosexism / Jeanne Hoeft
Globalization, colonialism, and postcolonialism / Melinda McGarrah Sharp
Economics, class, and classism / Joyce Ann Mercer
Disability, ableism, and disablism / John Swinton
Religious pluralism and Christian-centrism / Kathleen J. Greider
Continental Europe / Friedrich Schweitzer
Britain / Zoë Bennett
French Canada / Solange Lefebvre
Richard R. Osmer / The United States
South Africa / Jaco S. Dreyer
Daisy N. Nwachuku / West Africa
Brazil / Valburga Schmiedt Streck
South Korea / Meerha Hahn
Australia and Oceania / Gerard V. Hall
Mainline Protestantism / Gordon S. Mikoski
Roman Catholicism / Lynn Bridgers
Protestant evangelicalism / Charles J. Scalise
Pentecostalism / Mark J. Cartledge.