Pastoral Care for the Incarcerated: Hope Deferred, Humanity Diminished? 1st eidition David Kirk Beedon

Pastoral Care for the Incarcerated: Hope Deferred, Humanity Diminished? 1st eidition David Kirk Beedon – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783031132711,3031132718,9783031132728, 3031132726

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• ISBN 10: 3031132726
• ISBN 13:9783031132728
• Author:David Kirk Beedon

This book explores and formulates a response to the question: How best can those held in modern systems of mass incarceration be cared for pastorally when many prisons diminish both hope and humanity? Employing the multi-disciplinary approach of practical theology, this ethnographic enquiry will be a guide for chaplains and all who strive to embody compassion wherever human flourishing is undermined. The book’s structure follows the pastoral cycle method from practical theology, remaining context-based and practice-focused throughout. Pastoral insights are illustrated with personal, poetic and movingly reflective material drawn from the lived experience of indeterminately sentenced men who did not know if or when they would be ever released. The author, a former prison chaplain, remains reflexively and humanely present in the text, modelling the profound humane regard and pastoral presence that is central to this work. This book will take the reader deeply into penal spaces on a journey of both compassion and hope.

Table contents:

1. Introduction: Where and How to Start
Part I. Defining the Issue
2. Modern Mass Incarceration: Can it Be Humanised?
3. A Case in Point: A Socio-Historical Critique of Indeterminate Sentences
Part II. Describing the Context
4. Entering Lived Experience: From Theory to Reality
5. Tales From the Shadow of Despair
Part III. Reflecting on Practice
6. Seeking Humanity and Hope
7. A Pastoral Response
Part IV. Acting Compassionately
8. Custodial Compassion: A Pastoral Paradox
9. Loose Ends, Disappearances and Leavings: A Reflective Pastoral Epilogue

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