Pastoral Care in a Korean American Context

Pastoral Care in a Korean American Context
Author: Angella Son
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2021-01-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030485757

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This book provides theoretical background and pastoral strategies for pastors, lay leaders, and congregation members to foster a restoration of the human dignity imputed by God and the good community God desires. It addresses issues in pastoral care and pays particular attention to Korean and Korean American contexts. Some of the specific issues addressed include wisdom for common life (Chung Yong) as a theological and pastoral task, tension between Confucianism and feminism, care of the abused and abusers in intimate violence, ageism and elderly care, racism and cultural identity of Korean youth, sexual ethics among Korean young adults, and depression and addiction among Korean American youth and young adults. All of the contributors have a strong background in clinical and/or pastoral practices in addition to theoretical expertise.

Opening the Red Door

Opening the Red Door
Author: Hae-Jin Choe
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2022-04-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1666711187

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Many second-generation Korean Americans (SGKAs) are living lives of marginality on the edge of Korean American and American cultures. This double life often leads to heightened mental health concerns. The rise of Asian hate crimes in this country in recent months have added to the distress in this population. Due to cultural stigma, however, SGKAs may not seek out counseling or other mental health services. If they do, their unique cultural formation is often not fully addressed, impeding growth and healing. Red Door Ministry (RDM), a pastoral counseling center that started at a local Korean-American church, serves as a model for addressing this issue. Built from a postcolonial understanding of third space, RDM is constructed with various culturally sensitive elements that allow SGKAs to move from places of shame on the margins to empowered new centers. This transformation is examined by four in-depth interviews of RDM clients. These clients show that healing and empowerment were possible because their complex cultural hybridity was addressed in the process of counseling. This process is analyzed using concepts from Western psychological theories, Korean American theology, and postcolonial theory.

Korean Resources for Pastoral Theology

Korean Resources for Pastoral Theology
Author: James Newton Poling
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2012-07-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1608995844

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In a time of life-and-death challenges to the human spirit--global economics, nuclear dangers, environmental threats, and religious polarization and war--Christians must look for resources that provide new insights of God's power and care for all people. What are the forms of suffering and hope in the world today, and how can Christians respond with healing resources? Korean Christians have unique contributions to make to our understanding of pastoral theology and counseling. Pastoral counselors and theologians from the United States should look to the South Korean Christian churches and other Asian churches for conversation partners about the nature of care and healing in today's world. In this book, the authors explore important ideas--such as han, jeong, and salim--from Korean history and culture that can inform the healing ministries of the churches.

Memory and Honor

Memory and Honor
Author: Simon C. Kim
Publisher: Michael Glazier Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-03-23
Genre: Church work with Korean Americans
ISBN: 9780814687789

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Memory and Honor, reprinted in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Korean American Catholics (1966-2016), is a theological reflection on the American experience of the people of Korean descent. It is a reflection on the heritage of rupture, displacement, and resettlement as the key to identity and hope for those continuing to live in between the cultures, languages, and belief systems of Korea and the United States. This book gives voice to the first generation of immigrants and their children. Since the majority of Korean immigrants are Protestants, the first- and second-generation Catholic community is a minority of minorities, an ethnic minority as well as a religious minority. Thus, as a minority group and as a minority of minorities, Korean American Catholics may have more to contribute to church and society since this country was founded, developed, and maintained by immigrants such as these. Readers will come away with a deeper appreciation of the Korean immigrant contribution and more readily see the Korean American Catholic community as an authentic expression of church.

Preaching to Second Generation Korean Americans

Preaching to Second Generation Korean Americans
Author: Matthew D. Kim
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2007
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9781433100048

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This in-depth study on preaching to second generation Korean Americans, the first of its kind, is based on empirical and ethnographic fieldwork. Matthew D. Kim conducted surveys and semi-structured qualitative interviews with Korean American pastors and second generation young adult respondents in three geographic regions of the United States: the Midwest, the West Coast, and the East Coast. His primary conceptual framework employs social psychologists Hazel Markus and Paula Nurius' theory of possible selves to facilitate the process of congregational exegesis in the second generation Korean American church context. This book offers a new contextual homiletic model that enables Korean American preachers to engage in deeper levels of ethnic and cultural analysis in their sermonic preparation. Simultaneously, the author reconstructs conventional preaching roles of Korean American preachers and second generation listeners so that they may co-creatively imagine new possible selves that radically advance Christian mission and practice in the world. This book will serve as a primary or secondary source for upper-level undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate courses on preaching, communication studies, ethnic and racial studies, cross-cultural ministry, or social psychology.

The Bloomsbury Guide to Pastoral Care

The Bloomsbury Guide to Pastoral Care
Author: Bernadette Flanagan
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2014-03-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441125175

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One-stop reference work for clergy, pastoral workers, and all those in caring professions for whom healing and spiritual growth in the midst of daily life challenges is important.

Preaching to Possible Selves

Preaching to Possible Selves
Author: Matthew D. Kim
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Total Pages:
Release: 2021
Genre: Korean Americans
ISBN: 9781433184451

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"This in-depth study on preaching to second generation Korean Americans, the first of its kind, is based on empirical and ethnographic fieldwork. Mat-thew D. Kim, an award-winning author, conducted research with Korean American pastors and respondents across the United States. This book offers a new contextual homiletic model that enables Korean American preachers to engage in deeper levels of ethnic and cultural analysis in their sermon preparation and proclamation. His primary conceptual framework employs social psychologists Hazel Markus and Paula Nurius' theory of possible selves to facilitate the process of congregational exegesis in the second generation Korean American church context. This book will help preachers and pastors imagine new possible selves for their churches, congregants, and communities. The vision of a possible selves homiletic can be employed to any racial, ethnic, and cultural context. This book will serve as a primary or secondary source for undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate courses on preaching, pastoral theology, communication stu-dies, ethnic and racial studies, cross-cultural communication, or social psy-chology"--