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Performing Pastoral Care : Music as a Framework for Exploring Pastoral Care.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Religion and TheologyPublication details: London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2016.Description: 1 online resource (162 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781784502874
  • 1784502871
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Performing Pastoral Care : Music as a Framework for Exploring Pastoral Care.DDC classification:
  • 253 23
LOC classification:
  • BV4011.3
Online resources:
Contents:
Performing Pastoral Care; Foreword; Musical Quotations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 -- Listening to the Voice of Historical Experience; Surviving the Darkness of Imprisonment; Chapter 2 -- Listening to the Voice of Clinical Experience; Surviving the Darkness of Hospitalization; Chapter 3 -- Listening to the Voice of Historical Experience; Classical Music Born Out of War and Social Fragmentation; Chapter 4 -- Listening to the Voice of Pastoral Experience; (1) Classical Music as a Means of Discerning Sameness and Difference; Chapter 5 -- Listening to the Voice of Pastoral Experience.
(2) Classical Music as a Vehicle for Theoretical and Practical TransformationChapter 6 -- Reclaiming and Proclaiming Pastoral Care; Singing the Praises of Pastoral Care in a Mission-Focused Environment; Conclusions -- Pastoral Care as 'Mission Praise'; Appendix 1 -- St. John of the Cross -- Dark Night of the Soul -- Prologue Pp. 1-2 Stanzas of the Soul; Appendix 2 -- Texts and musical quotations used in Collage; Appendix 3 -- Musical Forms; Appendix 4 -- The Parable of the Song Smith; Bibliography; Subject Index; Author Index; Blank Page.
Summary: Using musical analogies, Gregory Clifton Smith explores the role of pastoral care, both from the point of view of performance and of music as a different form of engaging with life in extreme situations, such as war. Through the prism of music, he demonstrates the ongoing importance of pastoral care in religious communities.
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Performing Pastoral Care; Foreword; Musical Quotations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 -- Listening to the Voice of Historical Experience; Surviving the Darkness of Imprisonment; Chapter 2 -- Listening to the Voice of Clinical Experience; Surviving the Darkness of Hospitalization; Chapter 3 -- Listening to the Voice of Historical Experience; Classical Music Born Out of War and Social Fragmentation; Chapter 4 -- Listening to the Voice of Pastoral Experience; (1) Classical Music as a Means of Discerning Sameness and Difference; Chapter 5 -- Listening to the Voice of Pastoral Experience.

(2) Classical Music as a Vehicle for Theoretical and Practical TransformationChapter 6 -- Reclaiming and Proclaiming Pastoral Care; Singing the Praises of Pastoral Care in a Mission-Focused Environment; Conclusions -- Pastoral Care as 'Mission Praise'; Appendix 1 -- St. John of the Cross -- Dark Night of the Soul -- Prologue Pp. 1-2 Stanzas of the Soul; Appendix 2 -- Texts and musical quotations used in Collage; Appendix 3 -- Musical Forms; Appendix 4 -- The Parable of the Song Smith; Bibliography; Subject Index; Author Index; Blank Page.

Using musical analogies, Gregory Clifton Smith explores the role of pastoral care, both from the point of view of performance and of music as a different form of engaging with life in extreme situations, such as war. Through the prism of music, he demonstrates the ongoing importance of pastoral care in religious communities.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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