SOCIODRAMA IN A CHURCH SETTING

Abstract

During the past decade group dynamics and role playing have commanded significant attention and consideration as techniques or methods of relating the Christian faith and practice to the lives of the members of several Protestant denominational churches. How widely the aforementioned have been utilized in these churches I do not know. I am keenly aware that group dynamics and role playing have played a considerable role in the thought and planning of the Department of Christian Education of the National Council of the Episcopal Church, my church. This, in turn, has had an impact on local parish churches throughout the Nation, although to what extent I am not prepared to say. I have observed the utilization of role playing in a number of Episcopal churches to interpret and clarify the relationship of the religion of the child, or adult to the everyday living situations in which he finds himself.