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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Recognising Other Subjects: Feminist Pastoral Theology and the Challenge of Identity

Recognising Other Subjects: Feminist Pastoral Theology and the Challenge of Identity

Lassiter, Katherine E.

Paperback

General Christianity

ISBN10: 0718894464
ISBN13: 9780718894467
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Published: Jan 26 2017
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
An interdisciplinary study drawing on feminism and social theory to develop a theology of pastoral care that emphasises recognition of human well-being.

How do we care justly when the self suffers because of the identity that they inhabit? Pastoral theologian Katharine E. Lassiter approaches this interdisciplinary question from a feminist perspective in order to understand how suffering, subject formation, and social injustice are connected. Lassiter identifies the challenges of identity in developing a pastoral theological anthropology, reflecting on tensions in her own experiences of caring for selves. Drawing from theories of recognition, she argues that doing just care requires recognizing the need for recognition as well as acknowledging the impediments to receiving interpersonal, social, and theological recognition. Bringing together resources from pastoral theology and social theory, she develops a feminist pastoral theology and praxis of encounter in order to advance a care that does justice. Scholars, social justice practitioners, and pastoral caregivers will be able to use this resource to discover not only how and why recognition affects human development but also how we might implement a liberative theological praxis that is attentive to the role of recognition in subject formation.

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