Pastoral Care to Muslims Building Bridges

More & more often, pastoral care workers are encountering Muslims in hospitals. This is the guidebook they need to provide the spiritual support these patients are able to accept--support that doesn't conflict with their religious affiliations. The first section of Pastoral Care to Muslims: Building Bridges provides an outline of the major beliefs of Islam, chiefly those that relate to illness & dying. The Koran is quoted to support these beliefs & the practices that accompany them. The second section delivers a set of field-tested guidelines for the practice of pastoral care to hospitalized Muslims. Finally, two appendixes supply readers with samples of the kinds of prayers that are acceptable to Muslims.Kirkwood, Neville A. is the author of 'Pastoral Care to Muslims Building Bridges' with ISBN 9780789014771 and ISBN 0789014777.