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Cover illustration: “Celebrating resistances.” Photograph taken by M. McGarrah Sharp in Chacraseca, Nicaragua.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: McGarrah Sharp, Melinda A., author.
Title: Creating resistances: pastoral care in a postcolonial world / by Melinda A. McGarrah Sharp.
Description: Leiden : Boston : Brill, 2020. | Series: Theology in practice, 2352-9288 ; 7 | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “Multiple forms of oppression, injustice, and violence today have roots in histories of colonialism. This connection to the past feels familiar for some and less relevant for others. Understanding and responding to these connections is more crucial than ever, yet some resist rather than face this task directly. Others resist oppressive postcolonial conditions. Using intercultural stories and pastoral care scholarship, this book charts pathways through five resistances (not me, not here, not now, not relevant, not possible) to awaken creative pastoral care in a postcolonial world. Melinda McGarrah Sharp recommends practices that everyone can do: believing in each other, revisiting how histories are taught, imagining more passable futures, heeding prophetic poets, and crossing borders with healthy boundaries”– Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019032827 | ISBN 9789004412040 (paperback) | ISBN 9789004412057 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Pastoral care. | Postcolonial theology. | Postmodernism–Religious aspects–Christianity.
Classification: LCC BV4011.3 .M395 2020 | DDC 253–dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019032827
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ISSN 2352-9288
ISBN 978-90-04-41204-0 (paperback)
ISBN 978-90-04-41205-7 (e-book)
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