Creating Resistances - Pastoral Care in a Postcolonial World

In Creating Resistances: Pastoral Care in a Postcolonial World, Melinda McGarrah Sharp studies the concept of resistance to outline what postcolonial pastoral care can look like in practice, particularly for people who feel more removed from the urgency of today's postcolonial realities.

About the author

Melinda A. McGarrah Sharp, Ph.D. (2010), Vanderbilt University, is Associate Professor of Practical Theology and Pastoral Care at Columbia Theological Seminary. Author of Misunderstanding Stories: Toward a Postcolonial Pastoral Theology (Pickwick, 2013), her work integrates pastoral theology, ethics, and postcolonial theory.

Product details

• Authors: Melinda McGarrah Sharp, Melinda McGarrah Sharp
• Publisher: de Gruyter Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.10.2019
• EAN: 9789004412040
• ISBN: 978-90-04-41204-0
• No. of pages: 236
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 234 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 336 g
• Series: Theology in Practice
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Practical theology