Pastoral Care Health Healing and Wholeness in African Contexts: Methodology Context and Issues: 1 (African Practical Theology)

Pastoral theologians from Congo Ghana Kenya South Africa and Zimbabwe address in this book the issues of leadership Ubuntu (community) gender-based violence political violence healing and deliverance faced by pastors and ministers in African contexts today. Drawing on biblical theological social scientific and cultural contextual perspectives these African Christians offer much needed insights to assist in the care and counseling of persons towards healing health and well-being. For many years I have drawn on seven African-born pastoral care and counseling colleagues for insights related to the cultural and religious models and practices of pastoral care and counseling needs of African-Americans. In this new book these practical theologians have deliberately turned their attention to the pastoral care needs of the African Christian community and their focus is on the negative impact that colonialism has had on African traditional caring practices. Moreover they have targeted the need to apply pastoral care resources to the ongoing current African problems such as HIV/AIDS domestic violence and political corruption. --Edward P. Wimberly PhD Professor of Pastoral Care Special Assistant to the President Interdenominational Theological Center In this timely volume the authors demonstrate that it is impossible to talk about practical theology in an African context without discussing the issues of health healing and wholeness. Tapiwa Mucherera and Emmanuel Lartey assemble an impressive important and incisive collection of essays that deal with practical theological concerns and serve to illuminate the African experience. The essays speak to each other in ways that will greatly enhance the teaching study and practice of contextual pastoral care and counseling with a focus on Africa and the African Diaspora experiences. --J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu PhD Baeta-Grau Professor of Contemporary African Christianity and Pentecostal Theology Trinity Theological Seminary Ghana Tapiwa N. Mucherera is Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling Asbury Theological Seminary and the author of three books: Glimmers of Hope (2013) Meet me at the Palaver (2009) Pastoral Care from a Third World Perspective (2001). Emmanuel Y. Lartey is the L. Bevel Jones III Professor of Pastoral Theology Care and Counseling in the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. He is the author of In Living Color: An Intercultural Approach to Pastoral Care and Counseling (2003).