Caring for Souls in a Neoliberal Age

Bruce Rogers-Vaughn (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2019 | 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-71633-3 (ISBN)

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This volume offers a detailed analysis of how the current phase of capitalism is eating away at social, interpersonal, and psychological health. Drawing upon an interdisciplinary body of research, Bruce Rogers-Vaughn describes an emerging form of human distress—what he calls ‘third order suffering’—that is rapidly becoming normative. Moreover, this new paradigm of affliction is increasingly entangled with already-existing genres of misery, such as sexism, racism, and class struggle, mutating their appearances and mystifying their intersections. Along the way, Rogers-Vaughn presents stimulating reflections on how widespread views regarding secularization and postmodernity may divert attention from contemporary capitalism as the material origin of these developments. Finally, he explores his own clinical practice, which yields clues for addressing the double unconsciousness of third order suffering and outlining a vision for caring for souls in these troubling times.

Bruce Rogers-Vaughn is Associate Professor of the Practice of Pastoral Theology and Counseling at Vanderbilt Divinity School, USA. He brings 30 years of experience in clinical pastoral psychotherapy to his teaching and research. He is also President and Co-founder of the Pastoral Center for Healing, USA, where he continues his clinical practice.

1. Introduction: Preface to a Post-Capitalist Pastoral Theology.- 2. Neoliberalism, Inequality, and the Erosion of Social Well-being.- 3. Going Viral: The Neoliberal Infiltration of the Living Human Web.- 4. Neoliberalism as a Paradigm for Human Affliction: Third Order Suffering as the New Normal.- 5. Muting and Mutating Suffering: Sexism, Racism and Class Struggle.- 6. Beyond Self-Management: Re-Membering Soul.- 7. Concluding Theological Postscripts.

“In Caring for Souls in a Neoliberal Age, Bruce Rogers-Vaughn (2016) describes the impact of late capitalism on the political, economic, and cultural domains of our lives. … This is, all in all, a remarkable book, and one that is dearly needed. While pastoral theologians have long asserted that there are links between personal, social, and political aspects of life, Rogers-Vaughn’s well-researched and carefully argued volume offers an explanation of how these realms overlap and interact.” (Mary Clark Moschella, Pastoral Psychology, Vol. 66, 2017)

Erscheinungsdatum	20.12.2018
Reihe/Serie	New Approaches to Religion and Power
Zusatzinfo	3 Illustrations, black and white; XIII, 256 p. 3 illus.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Pastoraltheologie
Schlagworte	Capitalism • Economic Inequality • Neoliberalism • New Materialism • Postmodernity • Psychoanalysis • Secularization • Soul • Suffering • Theology
ISBN-10	1-349-71633-2 / 1349716332
ISBN-13	978-1-349-71633-3 / 9781349716333
Zustand	Neuware