Description: The practice of spiritual care is shifting toward intercultural and decolonial models. However, Mindy McGarrah Sharp argues that the field's tools to equip practitioners for such work are lagging behind. In Listening for Liberation, McGarrah Sharp helps fill the gap so that practitioners can engage with more expansive care models of listening.
Brief description:
A leader in pastoral theology and spiritual care's intercultural paradigm, Mindy McGarrah Sharp has taught for fifteen years at Phillips Theological Seminary and Columbia Theological Seminary. Dr. Sharp has published Misunderstanding Stories: Toward a Postcolonial Pastoral Theology; Creating Resistances: Pastoral Care in a Postcolonial World; and several book chapters, journal articles, and blogs. She lives in Decatur, Georgia, with her family.