Pastoral Identity as Social Construction

by Samuel Park

Book Overview

How do chaplains and counselors form their identities as ""pastoral"" caregivers in challenging clinical contexts such as institutional, interdisciplinary, postmodern, inter-cultural, and multi-faith work environments? This book is a product of the fifteen-year-long journey towards answering a well-known but hardly answered question about pastoral identity. Based on narratives of many pastoral practitioners who work in hospitals or counseling settings,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498287433
• ISBN13: 9781498287432
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"