Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2022.2156698
C. Doehring
Before diving into Emotions: Problems and Promise for Human Flourishing, I assumed that emotions are hardwired in the neural networks of our brains, ‘ready to be “triggered” by a particular (and specific) stimulus’ (150). For example, I visualized fear as a hardwired alarm system in my brain that could be activated by a news report on more contagious variants of COVID-19. I assumed that emotions such as fear, shame, guilt, anger and disgust were universal and structural. I wasn’t aware that my commonsense notion of emotions didn’t jive with my social constructionist ways of understanding other complex psychological and cultural phenomena. It was enlightening, then, for me to read McClure’s crystal-clear summary of neurophysiological studies proposing that emotions and feelings are constructed out of three psychological processes: (1) basic sensory information from the world that is (2) registered by our brains as ‘core affects’ which we then (3) make meaning of, using stored representations of prior experience and socialized categories, values, and expectations (144). McClure sums up this neurophysiological understanding of emotions:
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2022.2140256
Pamela D. Couture
ABSTRACT In order to replicate clinical supervision in the introductory classroom, the author breaks the learning task of pastoral care counseling into seven spiritual disciplines with a rationale for each. The integration of these practices over many years produces a seasoned practitioner.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-02DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2022.2153482
Felicity Brock Kelcourse
ABSTRACT Human development and faith, as life-cycle sequences of becoming, inform pastoral care training in seminaries, chaplaincy, and congregations. A life-cycle perspective considers the requirements for a good life, evaluated not only by cultural norms, but also by the subjective experience of individuals. In a theological understanding of human development, attention to interpersonal and social contexts expands to include the dimensions of soul and faith as intrapsychic experiences, with wisdom as the interpersonal fruit of development. Faith is to wisdom as roots are to fruits. Erikson's eight developmental stages and Schwartz's qualities of Self-leadership, or inner wisdom, are correlated with the developmental stages where they are most likely to emerge. The positive Self-leadership qualities Schwartz identifies are linked with their potential negative counterparts to determine what we are likely to find when Self-Leadership is missing. Wisdom, as the faithful dimension of our humanity, has the potential to grow throughout life.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-27DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2022.2086369
M. Sharp
ABSTRACT How do theological beliefs matter in pastoral care practices? This article introduces students of pastoral care to theological beliefs that have consequences for care practices. The article connects six foundational questions about pastoral care, six Christian doctrines, and six basic pastoral care skills, to argue that careful mapping of theologies of care is important in a postcolonial, interfaith world. When neoliberalism threatens to reduce care to transactional answers, it is important to linger in transformational practices attentive to the searching questions of healing and well-being in a world of suffering.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-01DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2022.2086370
Leanna K. Fuller
ABSTRACT Loss and grief are fundamental aspects of human experience, yet adapting to the profound changes brought about by loss often proves challenging to individuals and communities alike. This essay introduces readers to the concept of grief as a process of ‘relearning the world,’ and offers a framework for the practice of pastoral care with those who have experienced loss. I begin by exploring some of the central features of loss and grief, and then address the importance of considering contextual factors when caring for those who are grieving. Finally, I suggest that specific practices of care related to meaning-making, lament, and ritual can help grieving persons and communities to relearn their worlds in the wake of significant loss.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-17DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2023.2209769
Pamela Cooper-White
ABSTRACT This paper was presented at the Society for Pastoral Theology annual study conference, Montgomery, AL, June 10, 2022. It is based on the author's book The Psychology of Christian Nationalism: Why People Are Drawn In and How to Talk Across the Divide (Fortress Press, 2022). Cooper-White defines Christian nationalism as a social and political movement with the goal of restoring the US to a fictional origin as a ‘Christian nation’ with a not-at-all fictional origin in white, masculinist supremacy. Christian nationalism is a fanatical, radical departure from the teachings of Jesus and any faithful reading of the Hebrew Bible or the New Testament, and it is also dangerously anti-democratic. The paper offers an overview of current sociological research on Christian nationalism and its adherents; a discussion of conscious and unconscious motivations that draw people into extremist beliefs, including individual and group psychodynamics and the role of narcissistic demogogues (citing Freud); and how and under what circumstances to talk with people across this current extreme divide in American religion and politics without resorting either to disrespectful dialogue or to superficial appeals to unity.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-24DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2022.2028053
N. Hardy
ABSTRACT Spiritual assessment tools (SATs) have become fundamentally integrated into contemporary pastoral care, objectifying spirituality in a way that does little to appreciate its fluidity and dynamicity. In this paper, I use St. Augustine’s theology to argue that spirituality is dynamic and fluctuating, involving continuous movement and growth. To show that SATs cannot insightfully comprehend the spiritual experiences of the terminally ill, I first draw upon St. Augustine’s analysis of time, which accentuates that spirituality cannot be quantified. I then articulate St. Augustine’s account of divine deification, which shows that spirituality is comprised of incessant ascent and descent. I conclude by proposing a narrative chaplaincy approach that draws upon St. Augustine’s account of time and memory. By viewing spirituality through an Augustinian lens and implementing a dynamic narrative approach, chaplains can help instill a sense of peace in the terminally ill and cherish each patient’s fluid spiritual experiences.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-18DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2022.2028054
Celene Ibrahim
ABSTRACT Women's spiritual care networks are keeping the Islamic intellectual heritage fresh and intelligible for new generations of U.S.-based Muslims who are navigating faith, practices, and values as religious minorities. Here, I highlight leading voices and promising directions in the professionalization of Muslim women's spiritual caregiving. I detail how campus chaplaincy and seminary teaching positions have become vibrant settings for context-relevant guidance and spiritual mentorship among women.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2022.2059248
Liz Theoharis
ABSTRACT This plenary presentation from the Society of Pastoral Theology Annual Meeting in June 2021 addresses the intersection of systemic racism, systemic poverty, ecological devastation, the war economy, and the false narrative of Christian Nationalism and puts forward a vision of justice that comes from listening to the needs and priorities of the 140 million poor and low-income Americans. Drawing lessons from the 1968 Poor People's Campaign, this paper suggests that poverty is not inevitable, not willed by God, nor an unfortunate accident, but the result of policy choices by political, religious, academic and health institutions. It argues that people of faith, pastoral theologians, practitioners have a role to play in building a moral movement to fully address inequality. Special attention is paid to the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival and grassroots organizing in communities across the United States in the first quarter of the twenty-first century.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2022.2028056
S. Swain
ABSTRACT Disaster chaplains are there to support the temporal mission of disaster response and recovery, and the spiritual realities of symbolizing the presence and care of the divine. These two dimensions of chaplaincy speak of a systemic accountability. This article focuses on the formation of pastoral accountability in seminary education, chaplaincy practice, and disaster spiritual care. Drawing on the work of Carrie Doehring, it discusses the need to foreground safety and accountability during the COVID-19 pandemic, where religious leaders are called on to practice in ways more familiar to chaplains, being dually accountable to the temporal realities of pandemic protocols as well as pastoral realities, requiring acts of both compassion and assertion. The COVID-19 disaster highlights the need in seminary education to teach not just a trauma-informed approach, but a ‘disaster-informed’ approach, highlighting a systemic accountability needed in the long haul of disasters that require both immediate and sustained response.
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