Pastoral counselling has had a significant role in the development of the wider British counselling movement over the past thirty years. Yet this role has often gone unacknowledged, and little has been written about the implications of its distinctive identity within counselling. Clinical Counselling in Pastoral Settings fills this gap by offering an exploration of clinical issues that are distinctive to the work of pastoral counsellors in a way that is made clearly relevant to practice, whilst exploring wider issues. Contents include: * Pastoral counselling in...
Pastoral counselling has had a significant role in the development of the wider British counselling movement over the past thirty years. Yet this role...
Pastoral counselling has had a significant role in the development of the wider British counselling movement since the 1970s. Yet this role has often gone unacknowledged, and little has been written about the implications of its distinctive identity within counselling. This book offers an exploration of clinical issues that are distinctive to the work of pastoral counsellors in a way that is made relevant to practice, whilst exploring wider issues. Contents include: pastoral counselling in multi-cultural settings; pastoral counselling and the therapeutic frame; transference within the...
Pastoral counselling has had a significant role in the development of the wider British counselling movement since the 1970s. Yet this role has often ...
I would recommend this text as a basic reading resource for those with an interest in the field as well as those who practice pastoral care and counselling' - Youth & Policy
This is a useful book that discusses the differences and similarities if pastoral care and counselling' - Quaker Retreat Group Newsletter
I think Gordon Lynch has produced an admirable introduction to this subject. I believe it should become a 'must' for those undertaking theological training and would also highly commend it to those engaged in the supervisory...
I would recommend this text as a basic reading resource for those with an interest in the field as well as those who practice pastoral care and counse...
I would recommend this text as a basic reading resource for those with an interest in the field as well as those who practice pastoral care and counselling' - Youth & Policy
This is a useful book that discusses the differences and similarities if pastoral care and counselling' - Quaker Retreat Group Newsletter
I think Gordon Lynch has produced an admirable introduction to this subject. I believe it should become a 'must' for those undertaking theological training and would also highly commend it to those engaged in the supervisory...
I would recommend this text as a basic reading resource for those with an interest in the field as well as those who practice pastoral care and counse...
Much attention has been given in recent writings about religion to fundamentalism and the 'religious right'. But much less attention has been given to their opposite - the emergence of a new generation of progressive religious thinkers and organisations on the 'religious left'. The New Spirituality is one of the first books to give a comprehensive and authoritative account of this burgeoning progressive religious movement. It offers a clear and engaging analysis of the cultural roots, key ideas and organisational structures of this new faith, assessing its significance in the changing...
Much attention has been given in recent writings about religion to fundamentalism and the 'religious right'. But much less attention has been given to...
Much attention has been given in recent writings about religion to fundamentalism and the 'religious right'. But much less attention has been given to their opposite - the emergence of a new generation of progressive religious thinkers and organisations on the 'religious left'. The New Spirituality is one of the first books to give a comprehensive and authoritative account of this burgeoning progressive religious movement. It offers a clear and engaging analysis of the cultural roots, key ideas and organisational structures of this new faith, assessing its significance in the changing...
Much attention has been given in recent writings about religion to fundamentalism and the 'religious right'. But much less attention has been given to...
This Reader brings together a selection of key writings to explore the relationship between religion, media and cultures of everyday life. It provides an overview of the main debates and developments in this growing field, focusing on four major themes:
Religion, spirituality and consumer culture
Media and the transformation of religion
The sacred senses: visual, material and audio culture
Religion, and the ethics of media and culture.
This collection is an invaluable resource...
This Reader brings together a selection of key writings to explore the relationship between religion, media and cultures of everyday life....
It is often claimed that we live in a secular age. But we do not live in a desacralized one. Sacred forms - whether in 'religious' or 'secular' guise - continue to shape social life in the modern world, giving rise to powerful emotions, polarized group identities, and even the very concept of moral society. Analyzing contemporary sacred forms is essential if we are to be able to make sense of the societies we live in and think critically about the effects of the sacred on our lives for good or ill. The Sacred in the Modern World is a major contribution to this task. Re-interpreting...
It is often claimed that we live in a secular age. But we do not live in a desacralized one. Sacred forms - whether in 'religious' or 'secular' guise ...
