In this book David Augsburger discusses the dynamics of pastoral care and counseling across cultural lines. Augsburger combines theology with global perspective and cultural sensitivity to posit an inclusive understanding of pastoral care. This book will be of great interest to pastoral counselors in both academic and practical contexts.
A psychologist who trains Christian workers for cross-cultural service describes this book as "a helpful, thoughtful study of complex issues surrounding counseling.
In contrast, psychology is promoted even in Christian based counseling. This book touches on various forms of counselling such as couple, family, intending couples, pre and post-marital counseling.
Boucher , Jerry , Dan Landis , and Karen Arnold Clark . 1987. Ethnic Conflict : International Perspectives . Beverly Hills , Calif .: Sage . Bourdieu , Pierre . 1979. Algeria 1960. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
The meaning of pastoral care in modern multicultural societies is challenged and reexamined from a pluralistic, global perspective in this book.
Using a wide variety of concrete cases, van Beek outlines sensitivities, awarenesses, and skills fundamental to cross-cultural counseling issues such as identity, sense of belonging, worldview, identification, family counseling, and use of ...
This book can serve as a helpful textbook for seminarians and a useful guide for pastors and priests, church study groups, multicultural parishes, and anyone engaged in helping ministries with persons from other cultures.
Edited by pioneers in multicultural counseling, this volume articulates the positive contributions that can be achieved when multicultural awareness is incorporated into the training of counselors.
Sipe , A. W. Richard , and Clarence J. Rowe . 1984. Psychiatry , Ministry and Pastoral Counseling . Collegeville , Minn .: Liturgical Press . Sittler , Joseph . 1986. Gravity and Grace . Minneapolis : Augsburg Publishing House .
The coming of Colonization and Christianity to Africa and other indigenous cross-cultural contexts was a "mixed bag" of pros and cons.
VIGNETTE 3: THE UNITED KINGDOM: STEPHEN LAWRENCE: AN EXAMPLE OF SYSTEMIC OPPRESSION On April 22, 1993, a young black teenager, Stephen Lawrence was murdered while waiting with a friend, Duwayne Brooks, for a bus in southeast London.