Injustice and the care of souls: taking oppression seriously in pastoral care

Preface / Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook and Karen B. Montagno

Pt. I. The pastoral caregiver :

1. Midwives and holy subversives: resisting oppression in attending the birth of wholeness / Karen B. Montagno

2. Love and power: confronting white supremacy in pastoral care / Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook

3. The womanist chaplain: spiritual care for African American women in systemic injustice / Jessica Chapman Lape

4. Can one care for a soul that doesn't exist? and other koans from Buddhist chaplains / Monica Sanford

Pt. II. Caregiving as embodied practice :

5. Community organizing as spiritual care: a model for healing racial trauma / Nicholas A. Grier

6. The care of souls from the underside of hope: a Latinx perspective / Miguel A. De La Torre

7. Deadtime and redemption: prison chaplaincy, meaning making, community, and healing / Karuna Thompson

8. Making (ritual) sense of our own lives / Elaine J. Ramshaw

9. From cleaning and mopping to mutual recognition: radical caregiving and the call to heal the world / Cheryl A. Giles, Juliana Cohen

10. Flowers and songs: a liturgical community approach to pastoral care / Eric H. F. Law

11. The politics of tears: lamentation as justice-making / William Blaine-Wallace.

Pt. III. Cultural fluency, intersectional awareness, and pastoral practice :

12. Addiction, power, and powerlessness: alternatives toward recovery / Joel Glenn Wixson

13. Caring for people of Asian descent in an age of anti-Asian hate and violence / Greer Anne Wenh-In Ng

14. Wise of heart: twenty-first century spiritual care for Jewish communities and beyond / Rochelle Robins

15. Light at the end of the tunnel: pastoral care for Muslims / Ahmed Nezar M. Kobeisy

16. Injustice and the care of queer souls / C. J. Fowler, Cody J. Sanders

17. Ableism: the face of oppression as experienced by people with disabilities / Carolyn R. Thompson

18. Pastoral care with transgender people / Sarah Gibb Millspaugh, Mr. Barb Greve

Pt. IV. Pastoral practice across the life span :

19. Under stress, scared, and lonely: caring for children and youth / Sharon Ely Pearson

20. Just aging: practicing pastoral care with older adults / Jaeyeon Lucy Chung

21. Seeking wholeness at the end of life: progressing from the margins to the center / Marcia Chanta Bhan.

Pt. V. Public witness and pastoral practice :

22. Relational ministry: ministry with people who are without homes and people who are food insecure / Elizabeth Mae Magill

23. Pastoral care in contexts of protracted pandemic: the ongoing reality of HIV/AIDS / Altagracia Perez-Bullard

24. Military moral injury: mapping support for veterans and families / Joshua T. Morris

25. Gender-based violence: a network of harms / Marlene M. Ferreras

26. Walking in the liminal space with migrants and refugees / Natalie Teague, Pedro Ramos Goyocolea, Bere Gil Soto

27. Ajo, limón y miel (garlic, lime and honey): reflections from the Aztec capital on care in a pandemic / Rubén Arjona.