Pastoral Care and Liberation Theology
Pastoral Care and Liberation Theology
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USDThis 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.
- the first attempt to draw explicit connections between liberation theology and pastoral care in the first world
- author is the leading British pastoral theologian, with two highly-regarded titles to his credit
- strong jacket/cover endorsements
Product details
March 1994Hardback
9780521418225
292 pages
222 × 141 × 20 mm
0.455kg
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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.
