Pastoral care and liberation theology
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Pastoral care and liberation theology
(Cambridge studies in ideology and religion)
Cambridge University Press, 1994
Available at 6 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is the first book to show how Latin American liberation theology can be applied to and can transform pastoral care in countries such as Britain and the USA. Hitherto pastoral care has tended to concentrate on looking after individuals. Stephen Pattison suggests that much of the suffering endured by individuals is actually socially and politically caused, and so is avoidable if the appropriate action is taken. The author argues that what we now require is a socio-politically aware and committed pastoral care which makes an option for oppressed and poor people and engages in practical struggle against the forces of injustice and oppression. Focussing as it does especially on mentally ill people and on women, the book will be of interest to all those who want to broaden their vision and knowledge of liberation theology or pastoral care, whether theologians, pastors, students for ministry, members of caring professions, or users of the services they provide.
Table of Contents
- General editors' Preface
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The challenge of liberation theology
- PART 1 - LIBERATION THEOLOGY
- 1. The background to liberation theology
- 2. The nature and content of liberation theology
- 3. The methods of liberation theology
- 4. Putting liberation theology to work
- PART 2 - THE SOCO-POLITICAL CONTEXT OF PASTORAL CARE
- 5. The socio-political context of mental disorder
- 6. Who becomes mentally ill?
- 7. The historical and social context of the psychiatric hospital
- 8. The socio-political order of the psychiatric hospital: the staff
- 9. The socio-political order of the psychiatric hospital: the patients
- 10. The 'brave new world' of community care
- 11. The plight of mentally ill people
- PART 3 - THE POLITICS OF PASTORAL CARE
- 12. Pastoral care with mentally ill people
- 13. Socio-political awareness and commitment
- 14. Unction in the function: pastoral care in socio-political perspective
- 15. Liberating pastoral care
- 16. What is to be done? Towards a socio-politically aware and committed pastoral care
- 17. Bringing it all back home? Pastoral care with women
- conclusion
- Notes
- Index.
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