Emerging As Affirmative Pastoral Caregivers Beyond Gender Binaries - Gender Creative Promise

Spurred by encounters with gender diverse persons in his care, and employing a scriptural framework, the author urges caregivers of all kinds to look within and wrestle with the complexities of their own gendered selves, opening doors to emerging as affirmative pastoral caregivers beyond gender binaries.

List of contents

List of Illustrations
Part I: A Place on Earth: Introducing LGBTQ+ Heterogeneity
Chapter 1: Getting Started
Chapter 2: LGBTQ+: Terminologies and Histories
Part II: Transgender Survey, Components of Gender, and Knowing the "True Gender Self"
Chapter 3: The 2015 US Transgender Survey (USTS) Report
Chapter 4: Exploring Four Components of Gender: The Genderbread Person Redux
Chapter 5: "Where Do the Mermaids Stand?"
Part III: Strategies of Resilience: Opening Doors to a Gender Affirmative Pastoral Theology
Chapter 6: Gender Creative Resilience
Chapter 7: Psychology of Religion: Ally to Gender Affirmative Pastoral Theology
Chapter 8: Beyond Empathy in Pastoral Theology
Part IV: "Yet I Say Unto You": Gender Creative Biblical Interpretation as Affirmative Pastoral Action
Chapter 9: Towards a Gender Creative Lens on Biblical Interpretation
Chapter 10: Principles for Delivering Affirmative Pastoral Caregiving Beyond Gender Binaries
Chapter 11: Gender Creative Pastoral Caregiving: Skills of the Canaanite Woman
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

By Craig A. Rubano

Product details

• Authors: Craig A. Rubano
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781666934014
• ISBN: 978-1-66693-401-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Emerging Perspectives in Pasto; Emerging Perspectives in Pastoral Theology and Care
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Pastoral Resources, Christian life & practice, Christian life and practice, RELIGION / Christian Living / General, Religious aspects of sexuality, gender and relationships, RELIGION / Christian Living / Family & Relationships, Relating to Christian people and groups, Religious social and pastoral thought and activity, Christian social thought & activity, Christian aspects of sexuality, gender & relationships