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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524679303321

Autore

Myers-Shirk Susan E. <1958->

Titolo

Helping the Good Shepherd : Pastoral Counselors in a Psychotherapeutic Culture, 1925–1975 / / Susan E. Myers-Shirk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Md. : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

0-8018-9517-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 301 pages)

Disciplina

253.50973/0904

Soggetti

Liberalism - Religious aspects - Protestant churches - History - 20th century

Pastoral counseling - United States - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

United States Church history 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Anton Boisen and the scientific study of religion -- The methodology of clinical pastoral education -- The minds of moralists -- From adjustment to autonomy -- Democracy and the psychologically autonomous individual -- An ethic of relationships -- Gendered moral discourse -- The language of rights and the challenge to the domestic ideal -- Resurrection of the shepherd -- Christian counseling and the conservative moral sensibility.