Shame - Theory, Therapy, Theology

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Pattison recently retired as the Professor of Religion, Ethics and Practice and HG Wood Professor of Theology at the University of Birmingham. Klappentext Aims to understand the nature of shame as it relates to Christian thought and practice. Zusammenfassung This book! first published in 2000! raises fundamental questions about appropriate responses to shame both within religion and in disciplines like psychotherapy which concern themselves with this phenomenon. A book for ordinary shamed people! therapists and counsellors and for academic theorists in a wide variety of disciplines! as well as pastoral workers and theologians. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Approaching Shame: 1. Emotional confusion; 2. Problems in approaching shame; Part II. Encountering Shame: 3. The ecology of shame; 4. Chronic shame; 5. Some effects and implications of chronic shame; 6. Aspects of the socio-historical significance of shame; 7. Dealing with shame: the task of integration; Part III. Shame and Christianity: 8. Modern Christian responses to shame; 9. Shame in Christianity; 10. Towards more adequate approaches to shame; Epilogue.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Pattison, Stephen (Hg Wood Professor of Theology Pattison
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.10.2000
• EAN: 9780521568630
• ISBN: 978-0-521-56863-0
• No. of pages: 356
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine