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Helping the Good Shepherd : pastoral counselors in a psychotherapeutic culture, 1925-1975 / Susan E. Myers-Shirk.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Myers-Shirk, Susan E., 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pastoral counseling--United States--History--20th century.
- Pastoral counseling.
- Liberalism--Religious aspects--Protestant churches--History--20th century.
- Liberalism.
- United States--Church history--20th century.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 301 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- For those practicing and teaching pastoral counseling, it offers historical insights into the field.
- Contents:
- Anton Boisen and the scientific study of religion
- The methodology of clinical pastoral education
- The minds of moralists
- From adjustment to autonomy
- Democracy and the psychologically autonomous individual
- An ethic of relationships
- Gendered moral discourse
- The language of rights and the challenge to the domestic ideal
- Resurrection of the shepherd
- Christian counseling and the conservative moral sensibility.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-9517-0
- OCLC:
- 652354069
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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