Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2022.2059245
E. D. Jones
ABSTRACT Disenfranchised grief is the experience of grief where the loss, the style of grieving, or the griever is not or cannot be sufficiently recognized. It describes well what a great many underrepresented spiritual care providers experience at times during their clinical pastoral education – feeling as if one is a stranger – racially, socially, and culturally – in the exchange of care. This paper discusses this experience in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, ultimately endeavoring to stress the importance of being both seen and recognized.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2022.2059231
S. Rambo, Cheryl A. Giles
ABSTRACT Amidst forecasts about the future of theological education, the authors suggest that a spiritual care revolution is taking place, one that centers chaplains as the religious leaders of the future. This introduction situates the work of chaplains in the current moment and urges pastoral theologians to increase their ongoing investments in spiritual care education that is nimble and responsive to these changes. The authors organize insights around three basic questions that can serve as prompts for vital discussions about how to educate chaplains more effectively to meet current demands: What are we educating for? What are we educating chaplains to do? Where is the need? This issue features the research conducted from various collaborations around chaplaincy education and highlights the value of creating feedback loops between working chaplains, educators, and chaplaincy researchers.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2022.2059246
Feryal Salem
ABSTRACT Though a relatively new field, Islamic chaplaincy has become integral to many spiritual care and religious life divisions of public institutions that have undergone a significant shift towards a multifaith presence in approximately the last fifty years. These changes promote new opportunities in which Muslim chaplains can enrich religious life through their distinctive contributions to the field. Simultaneously, there are challenges that need to be addressed such as hiring practices that provide balanced support for Muslim chaplains, the avoidance of tokenization tendencies through ensuring the proper education of students training to become Muslim chaplains, and the need for such students to have their own space for development and formation that does not compromise their religious identities in Christian majority contexts. These challenges have facilitated creative solutions as well as calls for action from interfaith allies.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2022.2056355
Mary Elizabeth Toler
ABSTRACT For many white, Western European descendant-citizens of the United States who watched the horrific death of George Floyd and ensuing protests, the question of one’s racism has landed front and center in their consciousness in stark, new ways. This article offers a series of clinical and Christian theological reflections on the nature of race, racism, and anti-racism based on material gleaned from a series of clinical counseling encounters, including a verbatim from one particular session. The reflections include feedback from the Society of Pastoral Theology’s workshop I presented in June 2021. They are not intended to offer any exhaustive, definitive, proscriptive claims about race, racism, and anti-racism. Rather, the reflections are intended to be invitations to curiosity and to create avenues for future inquiry, particularly as it relates to pastoral counseling and the overall, ongoing formational work of raising consciousness around issues of race, culture, and ethnicity.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2022.2059247
Bilal W. Ansari
ABSTRACT Working from the insights of a chaplaincy encounter around death and burial rites, this essay argues for the education of Muslim chaplains that is grounded in Muslim pastoral theology. Muslim chaplains must be prepared to face intersecting sociological, psychological, racial, and cultural issues that arise in spiritual ministry. Lived theological education helps Muslim chaplains root and integrate spiritual care in one’s faith tradition and a theory of professional practice. Theological schools need to ensure that they are actively educating Muslim chaplains in ways that develop multidimensional cultural sensitivity and interpersonal skills that assist in navigating intersectional care experiences.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-21DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2021.2005287
R. Lamothe
ABSTRACT This article argues that political violence is unjustifiable as a basis of forming a polis. To make this case, a brief explication of the notions “political” and “political violence” is proffered. From here I claim that political violence is inimical to civic care and civic faith that founds a polis' space of speaking and acting together. I then shift to a Christian pastoral theological framework, arguing that political violence contradicts the revelation of the incarnation of Jesus Christ and is, therefore, unjustifiable. More specifically, the incarnation reveals a non-sovereign God of infinite, indeterminate care as the principle for organizing human relations-the ecclesia/polis. I also argue that Jesus' forgiveness of the Roman soldiers can be grasped in terms of Giorgio Agamben's notion of inoperativity, wherein the apparatuses and grammar of the terroristic forms of Roman political violence are rendered inoperative as a way of organizing human relations.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2021.2010993
Kyung Lee, Danjuma Gibson
The JPT seeks pastoral theological essays for a special issue on the topics related to the current Coronavirus-19 pandemic. Suggested topics may include pastoral theological reflections on Anti-Asian Racism, Xenophobia, equity implications of the pandemic, the meaning of suffering, the role of religious communities in response to the pandemic, the impact of the pandemic on religion and religious practices, and other topics you deem appropriate to this call.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-14DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2021.1929711
E. Cho
ABSTRACT Anti-Asian xenophobia and discriminatory acts against Asian Americans have increased significantly as the COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly spread across the US. But connections between diseases, racism, and xenophobia are not new in the history of Asian America. While from the 1890s to the 1950s, Asian Americans were primarily stigmatized with the label ‘Yellow Peril,’ from the 1960s to the present, they have been simplistically cast as the ‘model minority.’ However, with the outbreak of COVID-19, misinformation about the virus also spread, and the public perception of Asian Americans has shifted once again from their being the ‘model minority’ to being the ‘Yellow Peril.’ By looking at intellectual and cultural history, I argue that ‘Yellow Peril’ and ‘model minority’ are Orientalist representations of Asian Americans that have been used as hegemonic devices. Orientalism as a relationship of unequal power has structured the obstacles that Asian Americans have struggled against as they try to find a sense of belonging in the US.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-14DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2021.1929710
W. D. Roozeboom
ABSTRACT This essay explores the connections between fear, implicit bias, and injustice, noting how the brain’s deeply embedded structures and processes for survival predispose us to detect threat. It further illustrates how the brain’s categorization processes collude with bias to favor ‘in-group’ members and ‘other’ ‘out-group’ members. Taken together, these factors limit the brain’s mirror neural network’s capacities to empathize across lines of difference. While this sounds reductionistic and pessimistic, the good news is that, just like the brain is generally malleable, implicit biases can be modified through debiasing practices. In exploring these concepts, the essay examines the contributions from intercultural and postcolonial pastoral and practical theology to provide constructive frameworks for facing one another, enhancing recognition, and developing neighbor-love.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2021.1921403
D. Hansen
ABSTRACT This article analyzes the experience of foster children through the lens of four frameworks: attachment theory, systemic intersectional oppression, posttraumatic stress disorder, and silencing. These frameworks all illustrate the way in which foster children live in an environment of ‘tenuous connections.’ This article also proposes that COVID-19 has further exacerbated these tenuous connections and that while pastoral caregivers are capable of playing an essential role in providing stability and safety to foster children, it may be difficult for them to do so, due to the inherent instability of foster children's lives.
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