Pastoral Care and Counseling in Large/Mega Congregations
«The engaging narratives of the research participants provide readers with a keen sense of how Black Caribbean church members, and their pastors, imagine pastoral care.... This book is a significant contribution to the field of pastoral care and counseling overall.»
Anglican Theological Review
Church growth in metropolitan communities motivated a short study concerning the pastoral care and counseling of immigrants, specifically Black Caribbean congregants in large/mega congregations. Culture, denomination history, and interpretations of scripture enter into the dynamics of defining not only the pastoral office of leaders but their perception of “care. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- University Press of America
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780761867296
- Utgivelsesår
- 2016
- Format
- 24 x 16 cm
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«The engaging narratives of the research participants provide readers with a keen sense of how Black Caribbean church members, and their pastors, imagine pastoral care.... This book is a significant contribution to the field of pastoral care and counseling overall.»
Anglican Theological Review
«Through a careful ethnographic study of three black mega churches Dr. Beedoe provides a window into the pastoral care needs (met and unmet) of Afro-Caribbean immigrants. Her work is a significant contribution in the area of inter-cultural pastoral care and counseling and offers helpful guidance for culturally and contextually sensitive congregation care.»
Pamela Cooper-White, Christiane Brooks Johnson Professor of Psychology and Religion, Union Theologic
«Pastoral care and Counseling in Large/Mega Congregations: Black Caribbean’s Perception of Care in Cultural Diversity is a welcomed and valuable book celebrating the significance of pastoral care and counseling for local congregations with memberships of Black Caribbeans. Following the historic dimensions of pastoral care and counseling, namely healing, sustaining, guiding, and reconciling, Dr. Beedoe demonstrates that there is a way of tailoring pastoral care and counseling to address the cultural and religious context of immigrants. Social construction plays a vital role in the object relationships we carry throughout our life even cross-culturally. Significant is the emphasis on relationships across at least three generations as well as communal caring practices that are distinctly committed to Caribbean cross generational relationships and consistent with certain ritual and cultural practices.»
Edward Wimberly, Methodist minister, the Jarena Lee professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling at the