"This publication makes a highly original and innovative contribution to grief studies--it explores the sometimes-neglected themes of subjective spiritual intimacy with one who is deceased." --Bernadette Flanagan, Professor of Spirituality, South East Technological University " Growing Through Grief is a wise, compassionate, and ultimately hopeful exploration of spirituality in widowhood. Buckingham shows us that the death of a spouse or life partner, though painful, can be a pruning for a greater flowering in later life. This book is a valuable guide which will be of help both to widows and to those accompanying them pastorally and spiritually. It is profoundly life- and love-affirming, for which the author deserves our gratitude." --Soline Humbert, author of A Divine Calling "In the 1960s spirituality took a democratic turn. Now what was happening in every state of life and in the stages of everyone's life from childhood to old age was worthy of attention. Margery Buckingham illustrates this welcome development in the field with her fine book written with a spirituality lens about her life as a widow and her study of the lives of other widows.

" --Michael O'Sullivan, SJ, Director, Spirituality Institute for Research and Education "Margery Buckingham brings not only her experience of widowhood but also her background in architecture to this book! The section on visualizing the process of grief resolution is especially interesting and makes an important contribution to the literature on bereavement." --Anne Winchell Silver, Former Director, Center for Christian Spirituality, The General Theological Seminary.