Injustice and the care of souls : taking oppression seriously in pastoral care / Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook and Karen B. Montagno, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kujawa-Holbrook, Sheryl A., editor.

Montagno, Karen Brown, 1955- editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church and social problems.

Pastoral care.

Pastoral theology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 361 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2009]

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2009]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Pastoral care is often focused on individual problems, but much of what harms and impedes people stems from the larger social maladies at work in their lives. This unprecedented gathering of twenty-two essays by a diverse group of renowned writers and experienced caregivers discusses the realities of racism, sexism, heterosexism, ageism, ableism, and classism prevalent within the church and society. Injustice and the Care of Souls supplies pastoral caregivers with the knowledge and the skills needed to respond effectively and with compassion to oppressed and marginalized persons.

Part One examines first the larger issues of resisting oppresion, antiracism, and engaging difference. It then speaks directly to care issues with African American women, Latinos/as, and Asian North Americans, as well as providing Jewish, Muslim, and Buddhist perspectives on pastoral counseling.

Part Two looks at more specific dimensions of oppression sensitive care, including essays on gay ministry, addiction, HIV/AIDS, senior adults, disability, transgenderism, homelessness, hospice ministry, and ritual care. Throughout, this wide-ranging volume helps pastors and students to reflect on the ways their own social locations have an impact on their ministries and to gain familiarity with resources available to support pastoral caregivers in a variety of contexts.

Contents:

Introduction / Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook and Karen Brown Montagno

Context, community, and pastoral care

Midwives and holy subversives : resisting oppression in attending the birth of wholeness / Karen B. Montagno

Love and power : antiracist pastoral care / Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook

Engaging diversity and difference : from practices of exclusion to practices of practical solidarity / Brita L. Gill-Austern

Pastoral care with African American women : womanist perspectives and strategies / Marsha I. Wiggins and Carmen Braun Williams

Pastoral care from the Latina/o margins / Miguel A. De La Torre

Pastoral care in the context of North American Asian communities / Greer Anne Wenh-In Ng

Pastoral care from a Jewish perspective / Howard Cohen

Light at the end of the tunnel : pastoral care for Muslims / Ahmed Nezar M. Kobeisy

Developing a Buddhist approach to pastoral care : a peacemaker's view / Mikel Monnett

Oppression-sensitive pastoral practice

The tasks of oppression-sensitive pastoral caregiving and counseling / Donald M. Chinula

Never at ease : Black, gay, and Christian / Cheryl Giles

Addiction, power, and the question of powerlessness / Joel Glenn Wixson

Flowers and songs : a liturgical approach to pastoral care / Eric H.F. Law

The politics of tears : lamentation as justice-making / William Blaine-Wallace

Pastoral care with persons living with HIV/AIDS / Altagracia Perez

Ableism : the face of oppression as experienced by people with disabilities / Carolyn Thompson

Pastoral care with transgender people / Sarah Gibb Millspaugh

Problems or partners? : senior adults and a new story for pastoral care / Janet Ramsey

Pastoral care and gay men : the amazing and true story of the life and death of one good man / Christopher Medeiros

The time of no room : changing patterns in responses to homelessness in Britain / Kenneth Leech

Loss, death, and dying from a hospice perspective / Webb Brown

Making (ritual) sense of our own lives / Elaine J. Ramshaw.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-349) and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Online version: Injustice and the care of souls.

ISBN:

9781506478241

1506478247

Publisher Number:

99985216569

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.