University Press of America
Pages: 116
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7618-6729-6 • Hardback • August 2016 • $65.00 • (£50.00)
978-0-7618-6730-2 • eBook • August 2016 • $61.50 • (£47.00)
Jean Beedoe currently teaches in the department of Religion and Theology at Oakwood University in Huntsville, Alabama.
Part One: Defining Pastoral-Care Needs in Large/Mega Congregations
Chapter 1: Mandated Care of Congregations
Chapter 2: Traditional Pastoral Care and Counseling
Chapter 3: Pastoral-Care Response to Caribbean History and Culture
Chapter 4: Pastoral Needs in Large/Mega Churches
Chapter 5: The Learning Circle of the Study
Chapter 6: The Congregations as Source for Dialogue
Part Two: The Cultural Aspects of Black Caribbeans in Three Congregations
Chapter 1: Parables of Back Home
Chapter 2: Defining Pastoral Care in Large/Mega Congregations
Chapter 3: Pastoral-Care Theology of Black Caribbeans
Chapter 4: Evaluations and Recommendations for Change
Chapter 5: Towards Effective Pastoral Care
Part Three: Pastoral Care and Counseling in Cross-Cultural Needs of Congregations
Chapter 1: Church as Pastoral-Care Unit and Mission Field
Chapter 2: Towards Purposeful Pastoral Care and Counseling
Chapter 3: Possibilities, and Applications
Chapter 4: The Future of Pastoral Care in Congregations
Chapter 5: Hermeneutics of Pastoral Care
Chapter 6: Framing a Theological Perspective
Chapter 7: A Psychosocial Lens of Community
Chapter 8: Cross-Cultural Impact on Pastoral Counseling
Chapter 9: Racial and Cultural Identity Development Model
Chapter 10: ACA Code of Ethics in Pastoral Care and Counseling
Chapter 11: Cultural Ethics as Applied to Pastoral Care
Chapter 12: Cross-Cultural Competency and Ethics
Chapter 13: Values Clarification in Pastoral Care and Counseling
Chapter 14: Pastoral-Care Aspects of Cultural Sensitivity
Bibliography
The engaging narratives of the research participants provide readers with a keen sense of how Black Caribbean church members, and their pastors, imagine pastoral care.... This book is a significant contribution to the field of pastoral care and counseling overall.
— The Anglican Theological Review
Through a careful ethnographic study of three black mega churches Dr. Beedoe provides a window into the pastoral care needs (met and unmet) of Afro-Caribbean immigrants. Her work is a significant contribution in the area of inter-cultural pastoral care and counseling and offers helpful guidance for culturally and contextually sensitive congregation care.
— Pamela Cooper-White, Christiane Brooks Johnson Professor of Psychology and Religion, Union Theological Seminary in New York
Pastoral care and Counseling in Large/Mega Congregations: Black Caribbean’s Perception of Care in Cultural Diversity is a welcomed and valuable book celebrating the significance of pastoral care and counseling for local congregations with memberships of Black Caribbeans. Following the historic dimensions of pastoral care and counseling, namely healing, sustaining, guiding, and reconciling, Dr. Beedoe demonstrates that there is a way of tailoring pastoral care and counseling to address the cultural and religious context of immigrants. Social construction plays a vital role in the object relationships we carry throughout our life even cross-culturally. Significant is the emphasis on relationships across at least three generations as well as communal caring practices that are distinctly committed to Caribbean cross generational relationships and consistent with certain ritual and cultural practices.
— Edward Wimberly, Methodist minister, the Jarena Lee professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling at the Interdenominational Theological Center