Injustice and the care of souls : taking oppression seriously in pastoral care /
Pastoral care is often focused on individual problems, but much of what harms and impedes us stems from the larger social maladies at work in our lives. This unprecedented gathering of two dozen essays discusses the realities of racism, sexism, heterosexism, ageism, ableism, and classism prevalent w...
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Table of 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 community 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.