Helping the Good Shepherd: Pastoral Counselors in a Psychotherapeutic Culture, 1925-1975
(Part of the Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context Series)
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This history of Protestant pastoral counseling in America examines the role of pastoral counselors in the construction and articulation of a liberal moral sensibility. Analyzing the relationship between religion and science in the twentieth century, Susan E. Myers-Shirk locates this sensibility in the counselors' intellectual engagement with the psychological sciences. Informed by the principles of psychology and psychoanalysis, pastoral...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0801890470
ISBN13:9780801890475
Release Date:March 2009
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Length:320 Pages
Weight:1.35 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 6.3" x 8.8"
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