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{"title":"Absent a Word: How the Language of Sexual Trauma Keeps Survivors Silent","authors":"Danielle Tumminio Hansen","doi":"10.1080/10649867.2020.1748920","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10649867.2020.1748920","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper proposes that the words used to describe sexual trauma leave large gaps between what can be described and what the experience of harm actually looks like. It discusses the benefits and drawbacks of the terms rape, sexual assault, sexual abuse, incest, gender-based violence, violence against women, gross sexual imposition, and criminal sexual conduct. It explores the confluence of rape myths, individualism, and linguistic construction on the lived experience of sexual trauma. The paper closes with practical tips for pastoral caregivers who work with survivors.","PeriodicalId":29885,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Theology","volume":"30 1","pages":"136 - 149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10649867.2020.1748920","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41816694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pastoral Theology and Sovereignty: Thinking and Being Otherwise","authors":"R. Lamothe","doi":"10.1080/10649867.2020.1723979","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10649867.2020.1723979","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines the issue of sovereignty from the perspective of pastoral theology and its core principle of care. It is argued that God's infinite care of human beings, manifested in the incarnation of Jesus Christ, makes sovereignty inoperative. Inoperativity means the foundation of care orders relationships such that sovereignty and its attending mimetic violence are deactivated, inviting the possibility of relations that do not operate out of questions and answers of who rules. What this pastoral theological perspective offers is the ‘weak' transgressive power of the reality of care when it comes to the ‘strong' governing power associated with sovereignty and its theologies of subordination. This ‘weak' transgressive power is or can be a source of political resistance. This ‘weak’ power of care precedes questions of sovereignty and, while sovereigns can eschew care, they cannot eradicate this existential reality, which is a source of resistance.","PeriodicalId":29885,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Theology","volume":"30 1","pages":"106 - 86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10649867.2020.1723979","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47828722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Attending to the Suffering of Dementia: A Practical Theology Approach","authors":"J. Mason","doi":"10.1080/10649867.2019.1702794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10649867.2019.1702794","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT According to Eleonore Stump, narratives like the book of Job are especially rich resources for addressing issues of suffering and theodicy. Although the book of Job may be about many things, starting with the assumption that Job has dementia gives us a rich resource for understanding this type of suffering and ways to survive it. In this article, I propose a practical theology approach to the suffering of dementia that gives epistemic privilege to the sufferers, starting with close attention to the stories of Maria Bons-Storm and Christine Bryden, while asking what insights Job’s narrative may have for the experience of losing a personal narrative. I conclude by showing how the Job narrative can be used by dementia sufferers to preserve narrative cohesiveness and meaning by reorienting the sufferer to his or her own story. I do this while recognizing that the interpretation of the meaning of suffering belongs to the sufferer alone.","PeriodicalId":29885,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Theology","volume":"30 1","pages":"107 - 120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10649867.2019.1702794","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45190444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Toward an Asian American Pastoral Theology of Radical Hospitality: Caring for Undocumented Migrants","authors":"J. Chung","doi":"10.1080/10649867.2019.1702795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10649867.2019.1702795","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Although the media and the public generally take it for granted that the U.S. migration crisis, especially the case of the undocumented migrants, is a Latinx problem, one should not overlook that the number of unauthorized immigrants from nations other than Mexico (especially from Asia) has grown since 2009. Despite this new trend, there have seldom been any scholarly works on how Asian American Christian communities should offer pastoral care to their undocumented neighbors among themselves. The purpose of this paper is to provide a pastoral theological framework for Asian American churches and their leaders so that they might become better pastoral caregivers and advocates to the rising number of undocumented people within their communities. In doing so, this paper first analyzes how the sociocultural ideology of ‘model minority’ prevents the Asian American communities from being open and inclusive. It, then, explores how the ideology should be replaced by a theological idea of ‘radical hospitality.’","PeriodicalId":29885,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Theology","volume":"30 1","pages":"121 - 135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10649867.2019.1702795","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48298258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Addiction and pastoral care","authors":"Carol J. Cook","doi":"10.1080/10649867.2020.1712867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10649867.2020.1712867","url":null,"abstract":"Sonia E. Water’s Addiction and Pastoral Care makes many welcome contributions to persons seeking a more comprehensive and contemporary understanding of the multiple origins and impact of addictions and a range of respectful interventions. A professor at Princeton Theological Seminary, Waters writes in an accessible, conversational, and compassionate tone that allows the reader to overhear material she shares with her students to assist them in developing a substantive, trauma-informed, and justice based theology of addiction. In sum, her book ‘exegetes’ the nature of addiction from several interdisciplinary perspectives and provides much for readers to learn from, borrow, and build upon in the construction of their own theologies of addiction. From the outset, Waters asserts that addiction is a socially constructed, highly contested, and confusing concept to which she hopes to bring greater clarity. She admits","PeriodicalId":29885,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Theology","volume":"30 1","pages":"76 - 79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10649867.2020.1712867","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46415225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Personal is Academic: Transforming the Experience of Micro-Aggressions in the Classroom","authors":"Mary Elizabeth Toler","doi":"10.1080/10649867.2020.1721719","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10649867.2020.1721719","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article describes the need for effectively addressing the experience of microaggressions in the classroom. It explores the concept of microaggressions and their impact through the perspective of professors from marginalized populations and outlines a strategy for addressing microaggressions so that the classroom can be a place that fosters education, transformation, and healing. Finally, by intentionally engaging and addressing microaggressions, the pastoral classroom explicitly reclaims the classroom as a space that resists oppression and values of the acts of confession, atonement, and redemption. GRAPHICAL ABSTRACT","PeriodicalId":29885,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Theology","volume":"30 1","pages":"48 - 61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10649867.2020.1721719","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46612463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Pastoral Theological Response to Miguel De La Torre","authors":"Leanna K. Fuller","doi":"10.1080/10649867.2020.1721129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10649867.2020.1721129","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article responds to Miguel De La Torre's essay, “Embracing the Hopelessness of Those Seeking Pastoral Care,” which argues that the use of hope as a core concept in pastoral theology reinforces the white supremacy and Eurocentrism of the academy. In contrast, this article acknowledges that pastoral theology has been deeply shaped by white cultural norms, but contends that the discipline's commitments to lived experience and reflective practice create the conditions for new, more liberative understandings of hope to emerge.","PeriodicalId":29885,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Theology","volume":"30 1","pages":"15 - 19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10649867.2020.1721129","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48171676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Embracing the Hopelessness of Those Seeking Pastoral Care","authors":"Miguel A. De La Torre","doi":"10.1080/10649867.2020.1724387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10649867.2020.1724387","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The uncritical appropriation of Eurocentric philosophical and theological paradigms is detrimental to disenfranchised communities of color. This article argues for a methodology rooted in the hopelessness found within marginalized communities of color. Advocating for an ethics para joder (screw with) disrupts a normative Eurocentric discourse which normalizes and legitimizes Empire.","PeriodicalId":29885,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Theology","volume":"30 1","pages":"14 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10649867.2020.1724387","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49469494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Caring for Souls and Polis in the Age of Terror","authors":"Danjuma Gibson, K. S. Lee","doi":"10.1080/10649867.2020.1722364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10649867.2020.1722364","url":null,"abstract":"Violence and injustice are being levied against immigrant groups, black and brown bodies, and LBGTQ+ persons in the current sociopolitical environment. A kind of reactionary terror has taken on a greater intensity over the last several years, and is being normalized and justified as an effort to restore law andorder, giving a rise to a political slogan such as ‘MakeAmerica great again.’Pastoral theologians question what it means to be living in an age of terror andwhat it means to care for souls and our polis. Aptly, the theme of the 2019 study conference of Society for Pastoral Theology (SPT) held in Denver, Colorado from June 12–15 was Resistance and Resilience in an Age of Terror: Care of Souls, Care of Polis. The plenaries, work-in-progress, and workshops in this conference highlighted scholarship and theological praxis that centered on personal/communal resilience and resistance to terror. An important feature of the 2019 study conference was an immersion experience to the Greater Denver Interfaith Alliance (GDIA), a nonprofit organization under the leadership of Dr. Carroll Watkins Ali. In this excursion, members were able to witness and experience a firsthand example of the kind of resistance and praxis that is possible in relation to the care of souls in the current sociopolitical environment. Dr. Mary Moschella was an invited ethnographer of the 2019 study conference, providing an overview of the immersion activities and experience. According to Moschella, the visit to the GDIA offered a compelling example of the integration of theory and praxis. Reminding pastoral theologians of our accountability to those who are suffering and/or exist at themargin,Moschella claims, ‘if we are called to care and to promote resistance and resilience, this experience demonstrated both how it can be done and that it can be done.’ Informed by his work in Embracing Hopelessness, Dr. Miguel De La Torre poses a provocative question to the participants of SPT: Can pastoral theology celebrate hopelessness? Outlining a history of abuses perpetuated against Black and Latinx bodies, by the western medical profession and society at large, De La Torre establishes a prima facia case for mistrust of the western Eurocentric establishment. He is ‘convinced that the production of all Eurocentric philosophical thought – across academic disciplines – are oppressive and repressive to those of us who occupy colonized spaces.’ De La Torre invites pastoral theologians to consider if their commonplace usage of the concept of hope is in fact doing more to undermine (than assist) the overall pastoral theological project. Examining the history of abuses perpetuated against Black and Latinx bodies by the western Eurocentric polis, and given that the guild of pastoral theology is also a production – in large part – of Eurocentric philosophical thought, De La Torre invites us to consider his concept of hopelessness as a redemptive praxis. De La Torre is positing hopelessness over and","PeriodicalId":29885,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Theology","volume":"30 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10649867.2020.1722364","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46660253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"On Holy Ground: A Visit to the Greater Denver Interfaith Alliance","authors":"M. Moschella","doi":"10.1080/10649867.2020.1721126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10649867.2020.1721126","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article describes an immersion experience, part of the program of the Annual Meeting of the Society for Pastoral Theology (SPT) in 2019. SPT meeting participants were invited to visit the Greater Denver Interfaith Alliance (GDIA), a collaborative faith-based organization located in downtown Denver. Pastoral theologian Doctor Carroll Watkins Ali, a Society member, together with Imam Abdur-Rahim Ali, Imam of Masjid Taqwa – the Northeast Denver Islamic Center – hosted and led the program. The author narrates the immersion experience, recounting the substance of the panel presentations and the ensuing questions and discussion. She includes photographs and comments contributed by members of SPT who responded to an invitation to share their reflections. GDIA models a collaborative approach to prophetic, multi-faith ministries that promotes the survival and liberation of African Americans and other at-risk populations in the greater Denver area.","PeriodicalId":29885,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Pastoral Theology","volume":"30 1","pages":"62 - 75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2020-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10649867.2020.1721126","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42367426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}