Injustice and the Care of Souls, Second Edition: Taking Oppression Seriously in Pastoral Care

by Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook (Editor), Karen B. Montagno (Editor)

Overview

The practice of pastoral care cannot escape the realities of injustices and oppression that often operate in the context where caregiving happens. In response, Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook and Karen B. Montagno present a compilation of essays that reach beyond individualistic, white, Western, middle-class models of caregiving that can mimic systems of injustice. Instead, the resulting volume offers constructive approaches to caregiving that more effectively meet the needs of those who routinely experience marginalization and oppression.

Kujawa-Holbrook and Montagno argue that the fundamental work of religious traditions, including caregiving, is about human freedom and wholeness. As such, Injustice and the Care of Souls helps chaplains, pastoral counselors, social service workers, and other caregivers to better situate their work within the contexts of those seeking care. The book also helps caregivers to reflect on ways their social locations affect their work.

Since its first publication nearly fifteen years ago, this book uniquely offered content that situated contexts such as substructures in urban neighborhoods, religious liturgical practices, and the impact of public policies as the focus for examining critical dynamics surrounding those seeking care, the caregiver, and the hope for oppression-sensitive forms of pastoral care. This second edition revises and reorganizes previous essays while providing additional ones. New chapters include ones that highlight the dead time of prison life, the impact of moral decision-making on veterans, and the life-or-death challenges that immigrants and refugees often face.

Kujawa-Holbrook and Montagno divide this edition's twenty-seven essays into five parts, with the first part devoted to the pastoral caregiver's positionality. The remaining sections address pastoral caregiving as embodied practices, cultural fluency and intersectional awareness, pastoral practice across the life span, and pastoral practice and public witness. This volume's contributors offer spiritual caregivers a compilation of approaches to the care of souls that bring healing, voice, and wholeness to the marginalized and oppressed.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781506482477
Publisher:	1517 Media
Publication date:	09/12/2023
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	414
Sales rank:	262,770
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook is an Episcopal priest, scholar, theological educator, and professor of practical theology and religious education at Claremont School of Theology and professor of Anglican Studies at Bloy House, the Episcopal Theological School at Los Angeles. A certified Episcopal chaplain, she is the author of numerous books, articles, and reviews on racism and white supremacy in pastoral care, education, and congregational life. Kujawa-Holbrook was co-editor of the first edition of Injustice and the Care of Souls.

Karen B. Montagno is an Episcopal priest, retreat leader, writer, and activist in the gun violence prevention movement. She has served as a seminary community life dean and theological educator. A member of Spiritual Directors of Color, she most recently served as a canon at the Christ Church Cathedral in Cincinnati. Karen is a faith leader in Moms Demand Action and was co-editor of the first edition of Injustice and the Care of Souls.

Table of Contents

Preface

Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook and Karen B. Montagno

About the Authors

Part 1: The Pastoral Caregiver

Chapter 1Midwives and Holy Subversives: Resisting Oppression in Attending the Birth of Wholeness

Karen B. Montagno

Chapter 2

Love and Power: Confronting White Supremacy in Pastoral Care

Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook

Chapter 3

The Womanist Chaplain: Spiritual Care for African American Women in Systemic Injustice

Jessica Chapman Lape

Chapter 4

Can One Care for a Soul that Doesn't Exist? And Other Koans for Buddhist Chaplains

Monica Sanford

Part 2: Caregiving as Embodied Practice

Chapter 5

Community Organizing as Spiritual Care: A Model for Healing Racial Trauma

Nicholas A. Grier

Chapter 6

The Care of Souls from the Underside of Hope: A Latinx Perspective

Miguel A. De La Torre

Chapter 7

Deadtime and Redemption

Karuna Thompson

Chapter 8

Making (Ritual) Sense of Our Own Lives

Elaine J. Ramshaw

Chapter 9

From Cleaning and Mopping to Mutual Recognition: Radical Caregiving and the Call to Heal the World

Cheryl A. Giles and Juliana Cohen

Chapter 10

Flowers and Songs: A Liturgical Community Approach to Pastoral Care

Eric H. F. Law

Chapter 11

The Politics of Tears: Lamentation as Justice-Making

William Blaine-Wallace

Part 3: Cultural Fluency, Intersectional Awareness, and Pastoral Practice

Chapter 12

Addiction, Power, and Powerlessness

Joel Glenn Wixson

Chapter 13

Caring for People of Asian Heritage in an Age of Anti-Asian Hate and Violence

Greer Anne Wenh-in Ng

Chapter 14

Wise of Heart: Twenty-First Century Spiritual Care for Jewish Communities and Beyond

Rochelle Robins

Chapter 15

Light at the End of the Tunnel: Pastoral Care for Muslims

Ahmed Nezar M. Kobeisy

Chapter 16

Injustice and the Care of Queer Souls?

J. Fowler & C. J. Sanders

Chapter 17

Ableism: The Face of Oppression as Experienced by People with Disabilities

Carolyn R. Thompson

Chapter 18

Pastoral Care with Transgender People

Sarah Gibb Millspaugh and Mr. Barb Greve

Part 4: Pastoral Practice Across the Life Span

Chapter 19

Under Stress, Scared, and Lonely: Caring for Children and Youth

Sharon Ely Pearson

Chapter 20

Just Aging: Practicing Pastoral Care with Older Adults

Jaeyeon Lucy Chung

Chapter 21

Seeking Wholeness at End-of-Life: Progressing from the Margins to the Center

Marcia Chanta Bhan

Part 5: Public Witness and Pastoral Practice

Chapter 22

Relational Ministry: Ministry with People Who are Without Homes and People Who are Food Insecure

Elizabeth Mae Magill

Chapter 23

Pastoral Care in Contexts of Pandemic: The Ongoing Reality of AIDS

Altagracia Perez-Bullard

Chapter 24

Military Moral Injury: Mapping Support for Veterans and Families

Joshua T. Morris

Chapter 25

Gender-Based Violence: A Network of Harms

Marlene Ferreras

Chapter 26

Walking in the Liminal Space with Migrants and Refugees

Natalie Teague, Pedro Ramos Goyocolea, Bere Gil Soto

Chapter 27

Ajo, limón y miel (Garlic, Lime, and Honey): Reflections from the Aztec Capital on Care in a Pandemic

Rubén Arjona

Editorial Reviews

"This editorial work challenges us to move beyond individualistic, white, Western, middle-class models of pastoral care. With different authors drawing from the unique contexts of their own experiences, this book offers an insightful paradigm of communal pastoral and spiritual care in various intersectional contexts such as gender, race, class, culture, religion, sexuality, and nationality. This is an invaluable resource for intercultural pastoral care for those who attend to the needs of people as they deal with systems of oppression, injustice, and traumatic stress every day." —Rev. AHyun Lee, assistant professor of pastoral theology, care, and psychotherapy, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary

"In this second edition of Injustice and the Care of Souls: Taking Oppression Seriously in Pastoral Care, Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook and Karen B. Montagno again make a significant contribution to pastoral care. Time has confirmed what the first publication argued—context and particularity matter. The model of pastoral care that reified the individual and gave scant attention to those relegated to the margins and subjected to the capricious effects of systemic injustice is fading, thanks to Kujawa-Holbrook and Montagno and their collaborators. The new chapters are timely and thought-provoking. The collection is deeply pastoral and, like the first edition, challenges the novice and most experienced to think theologically, pastorally, and systemically. A classic." —Phillis Isabella Sheppard, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter chair and Professor of Religion, Psychology, and Culture; interim associate dean for academic affairs; and director of the James Lawson Institute for the Research and Study of Nonviolent Movements, Vanderbilt University, and author of Tilling Sacred Grounds: Interiority, Black Women, and Religious Experience

"Struggle, pain, hardship, and loss are inevitable facets of the human condition. Yet, the extent to which we suffer is not simply an individual matter. Systems of oppression, inequality, and marginalization add often unrecognized layers of trauma and grief. This rich anthology of essays from diverse cultural, philosophical, and religious perspectives guides the twenty-first-century chaplain from assumptions to awareness, from stereotypes to cultural competence, and toward the important work of caring for all people." —Cantor Jonathan L. Friedmann, PhD, dean of the master of Jewish studies program, Academy for Jewish Religion California, and coeditor of Torah, Service, Deeds: Jewish Ethics in Transdenominational Perspectives

"Injustice and the Care of Souls exemplifies an embodied public theology in its oppression-sensitive and anti-racist approach to spiritual and pastoral care. Kujawa-Holbrook and Montagno midwife a text with an impressive community of voices that calls for an embodied practice that is accountable both to diverse traditions and to the emergent needs of marginalized communities. An invaluable conversation partner for all those engaged in ministries of care." —Storm Swain, Frederick Houk Borsch Associate Professor of Anglican Studies, Pastoral Care, and Theology, United Lutheran Seminary, and author of Trauma and Transformation at Ground Zero: A Pastoral Theology

"Pastoral care classic renewed. There is not pastoral care without the facing of injustices, truth-speaking, and reparation. Whether your care-full ministry is in the context of a congregation, chaplaincy, or broader community, this volume is an invitation and a nourishment for the faithful journey of providing effective and sustainable pastoral care." —Rev. Dr. Zachary Moon, professor of theology and psychology, Chicago Theological Seminary

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