| Titel: | Pastoral counselor as social catalyst: Inculturating pastoral counseling in India |
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| Autor: | Parappully, J |
| Mediengruppe: | --- |
| Herausgeber: | --- |
| Zeitschrift: | --- |
| Jahr: | 1992 |
| Band: | --- |
| Heft: | --- |
| Seiten: | 147 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Abstract: | This study explores the social dimension of pastoral counseling. Western literature traditionally assigns a limited objective to pastoral counseling by focusing on personal healing and personal transformation, and considering the social only or mostly as a context for the personal. Using the method of comparative theology and the insights of classically Christian (Pauline theology) and classically Indian (Yoga psychology) traditions, this study argues that social transformation is a valid and necessary objective of pastoral counseling. The contemporary situation of India is used as the context to argue for and illustrate the thesis. Meditation as found in the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo, an Indian mystic and social activist, and as practised in transpersonal psychotherapy, is presented as a relevant tool for both inculturating pastoral counseling in India and for enhancing the social transformational dimension of pastoral Counseling in the traditionally Christian countries of the West. |