Widely acclaimed study of the character of language and its role in the perception of reality.

The Language of the Rite

Grainger, Roger

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Classics

Group Spirituality: A Workshop Approach

Why do we go to theatre? Why do actors act? If it’s only ‘escapism’, what is it we are escaping from? This book sets about answering these questions.

Healing Theatre: How Plays Change Lives

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Trafford Publishing

Faith, Hope, And Therapy: Counseling with St. Paul

As a parish minister and a chartered counseling psychologist, author Dr. Roger Grainger works in the secular world every day. His clients don't come to him for religious advice, so, despite his background as a Christian priest, he must talk to them in everyday language. Even so, many of the points he makes are relevant in both secular and faith-based contexts.  Faith, Hope, and Therapy: Counseling with St. Paul is based upon his work with a number of his clients. Among them are Andrea, a woman who is deeply unhappy because she doesn't know who she is; Dale, who feels he has no purpose in life; Mrs. Ingram, unable to handle bereavement; and Daniel, unable to live up to his father's expectations. Each client has a unique story and the need for therapy to discover their true paths in life.  Grainger demonstrates how his faith was both informed and illuminated by these encounters. Even when his clients take him by surprise, he learns from them because he recognizes that only by acting as a real human being, with his own faults and foibles, and not as an impeccable professional clothed in a mantle of objectivity, can he truly be a professional. Through these stories, he seeks to offer models to anyone seeking to change his or her way of doing things.

Faith, Hope, and Therapy: Counseling with St. Paul

As a parish minister and a chartered counseling psychologist, author Dr. Roger Grainger works in the secular world every day. His clients don't come to him for religious advice, so, despite his background as a Christian priest, he must talk to them in everyday language. Even so, many of the points he makes are relevant in both secular and faith-based contexts.

Trafford Publishing P.O.D.

Group spirituality is an increasingly popular area of focus, and working in groups raises some very different and valuable consequences which wouldn't necessarily arise in a one-to-one encounter. In Group Spirituality, Roger Grainger, an author already established as an authority on Drama therapy, provides a functional guide to group spirituality and workshops. Derived from the authors' experiences of working with groups of people interested in exploring their own and other people's spirituality, Group Spirituality turns an abstract idea into a practical and recognizable experience. The nature of group work, the embodiment of ideas and feelings, and circumstances aiding personal encounter are discussed. Workshop examples aimed at establishing group identity and the introduction of the idea of the 'safe place' are explained. The symbolism of spiritual awareness is approached, and a firm distinction between spirituality and religion is made. Group Spirituality's approach to spirituality from a workshop focus, successfully attempts to embody spirituality and provide a framework for consciously examining and integrating spirituality within the rest of our life.

Mental Health

Routledge

Group spirituality is an increasingly popular area of focus, and working in groups raises some very different and valuable consequences which wouldn't necessarily arise in a one-to-one encounter. In Group Spirituality, Roger Grainger, an author already established as an authority on Drama therapy, provides a functional guide to group spirituality and workshops. Derived from the authors' experiences of working with groups of people interested in exploring their own and other people's spirituality, Group Spirituality turns an abstract idea into a practical and recognizable experience. The nature of group work, the embodiment of ideas and feelings, and circumstances aiding personal encounter are discussed. Workshop examples aimed at establishing group identity and the introduction of the idea of the 'safe place' are explained. The symbolism of spiritual awareness is approached, and a firm distinction between spirituality and religion is made. Group Spirituality's approach to spirituality from a workshop focus, successfully attempts to embody spirituality and provide a framework for consciously examining and integrating spirituality within the rest of our life.

Group Spirituality

The Drama of the Rite brings home the dramatic identity of ritual and the religious significance of all kinds of theatre. Historically speaking, religious ritual and theatre appear to have evolved together. But what is the relationship between catharsis and liturgy? How liturgical is theatre and how theatrical is liturgy? Liturgy's purpose is dramatic; like theatre, it is a kinetic medium focusing upon the presence of the other person, whether divine or human. This book explores the characteristics of liturgical experience - concentration, single mindedness, intentionality, emotional catharsis, and, above all, the quality of encounter on which personal environment depends. It is an exploration which leads into the dramatic shape underlying both liturgy and theatre, that of the rite of passage itself. Examples are given of such rites, understood from the point of view of their theatrical nature and purpose. This involves looking at liturgical structure from a point of view which, up to now, has largely been neglected by scholars, although its relevance emerges with striking force, as the drama of the incursion of the divine into human lives. Many have spoken and written of the 'drama of religious ritual' and been content to leave it at that. Roger Grainger takes a clichÃ?Â?Ã?Â?Ã?Â?Ã?Â© and examines the often misunderstood truth it expresses.

The Drama of the Rite: Worship, Liturgy and Theatre Performance

Christian Books & Bibles

Liverpool University Press

This is a book about the central principle of drama and theatre - how we join up with one another in order to enjoy a play. This is the principle defined by Coleridge when he described poetry as involving 'the willing suspension of disbelief,' a phrase often used by theatre critics and others, but one which is rarely examined in any detail, having as much to do with psychology as aesthetics. Author Roger Grainger is both a psychologist and an actor, and is thus uniquely placed to investigate this shared territory - not only from an academic viewpoint, but also professionally - in 'hands-on' ways. Theatre has the ability to transfer reality. It promotes a situation where disbelief is willingly suspended in every gesture of demonstration or presentation. As a consequence, imaginative involvement is at the heart of theatrical endeavor, and thus has inevitable crucial repercussions for human happiness and well-being. Drama and the uses to which we put it represent part of the process of living our lives. Drama is an aspect of being human which is frequently misunderstood and almost always undervalued. This fact about ordinary life is considered with regard to its social and sociological implications. The concern is with ordinary human experience. The purpose is to draw attention to something that is usually taken for granted and almost always denied the respect it deserves. Without the experience, which we so often dismiss as 'mere entertainment,' we would not just find life less enjoyable, it would be unendurable. Without the psychological harmony with our inner selves and our worlds which imagination allows and encourages, we would struggle to be human at all. This book explains what it is that makes drama in all its manifestations - including literature - 'work,' and how the engagement with imagination leads to psychological wholeness.

Suspending Disbelief: Theatre as Context for Sharing

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

The Bible and the sacraments go together as the cornerstone of Christian identity. Wherever Christianity is practiced in traditional ways, converts are baptized and bread is broken together. Countless books have been written about the theological significance of these events, but their strictly human meaning and value - as ways of helping people to make sense of themselves and enjoy their lives together - has sometimes been overlooked. The sacraments are, first and foremost, signs of belonging, to God and with one another. They are sacramental not only because of the circumstances surrounding their origin, but also because of their function in incorporating the personal belonging to which they point. Bridging the Gap explores the human side of sacrament - the emotional hunger which it addresses, what this means from a theological point of view, and what it still means for us today, despite all the changes which have taken place over the ages in the world in which we live. By looking at the way human beings relate to one another, we can begin to see the amazing relevance of these traditional ceremonies - their God given ability to heal our personal woundedness and bring to the forefront the reality of belonging together in community. The significance of sacramental worship for human growth and development is examined, using insights gained from the anthropological study of religion. The contribution to psychological health and the establishment of individual identity through personal relationship is identified as the basis of our sense of belonging. Bridging the Gap proceeds from the conviction that a better understanding of the dynamics of our belonging would contribute to the Church's mission within a fragmented society.

Bridging the Gap: The Christian Sacraments and Human Belonging

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Grainger, Roger. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Grainger, Roger

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Grainger, Roger. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

The Language of the Rite

Group Spirituality: A Workshop Approach

Healing Theatre: How Plays Change Lives

Faith, Hope, and Therapy: Counseling with St. Paul

Faith, Hope, And Therapy: Counseling with St. Paul

Group Spirituality: A Workshop Approach

Group Spirituality

The Drama of the Rite: Worship, Liturgy and Theatre Performance

Suspending Disbelief: Theatre as Context for Sharing

Bridging the Gap: The Christian Sacraments and Human Belonging