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Meet Me at the Palaver: Narrative Pastoral Counseling in Postcolonial Contexts - Couverture souple

Mucherera, Tapiwa N.

 
9781556359712: Meet Me at the Palaver: Narrative Pastoral Counseling in Postcolonial Contexts
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1556359713 ISBN 13 : 9781556359712
Editeur : Cascade Books, 2009

Synopsis

Meet Me at the Palaver makes the case for a particular approach to pastoral counseling as a response to the destructive impact of colonial Christianity on indigenous African communities. The book opens with stories of destructive change brought to indigenous contexts (such as Zimbabwe, Africa), wherein the culture, values, religion, and humanity of African peoples were often marginalized. Mucherera demonstrates that therapy or counseling as taught in the West will not always suffice in such contexts, since these approaches tend to promote and focus on individuality, autonomy, and independence. Counselors in indigenous contexts need to "get off their couch or chair" and into the neighborhoods-into those places made vulnerable to disease and poverty by the collapse of "the palaver" and other traditional institutions of social stability. Since storytelling was at the heart of the practices of the palaver and continues to be a way of life in African cultures, Mucherera argues for a holistic narrative pastoral counseling approach to assess and service the three basic areas of human needs in indigenous African communities: body, mind, and spirit.

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À propos de l'auteur

Tapiwa N. Mucherera is Professor of Pastoral Counseling at Asbury Theological Seminary. He is author of Meet Me at the Palaver and Glimmers of Hope. He is editor of Pastoral Care, Health, Healing, and Wholeness in African Contexts: Methodology, Context, and Issues, and has also contributed chapters to several academic books. An ordained United Methodist Church (UMC) pastor, he has served several churches in Zimbabwe, Iowa, Denver, and Kentucky. Mucherera is serving on the Board of Ordained Ministry of the Florida UMC Annual Conference, and serves on the ACPE National Board.

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Éditeur
Cascade Books
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1556359713
ISBN 13 
9781556359712
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
152
Coordonnées du fabricant
Buchpark GmbH
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