| Description |
1 online resource (142 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Advance Praise -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Far-Reaching Impacts -- A Disaster Trajectory: How We Got Here -- Chapter Outline -- A Very Brief Word on Theodicy -- 1. Phase One: Devastation and Heroism -- Pastoral Leadership -- Emotional and Spiritual Care Needs Following Trauma -- Staff and Lay Experiences -- Congregational Care -- Children, Youth, and Caregivers -- The Press and the Problem Volunteer -- Community-Wide Care -- Channeling the Outpouring of Compassion -- Last but Not Least: Clergy Self-Care -- Resilience: A Hopeful Note -- 2. Worship and Theology after Trauma -- Planning the First Worship Service: Worship Reimagined -- Theology in the Aftermath of Violence -- 3. Transitions -- Walking into the Valley of the Shadow -- What Now? -- Checking in with Staff and Leaders -- 4. Phase Two: Disillusionment -- Spiritual and Emotional Characteristics of Disillusionment -- Pastoral Leadership -- Vocational Trauma -- Staff and Lay Experiences -- Missional Trauma -- Another Form of Congregational Trauma: Clergy Sexual Misconduct -- Congregational Care -- Clergy Self-Care: Strategies for Resilience -- 5. Worship and Wondering in the Wilderness -- Weekly Worship -- Ritual and Sacrament -- 6. Phase Three: Reforming toward Wisdom -- Pastoral Leadership -- Clergy Self-Care -- Staff and Lay Experiences -- Congregational Care -- Community-Wide Care -- Worship -- 7. Phase Four: Wisdom -- Wisdom Markers -- Pastoral Leadership -- Staff and Lay Experiences -- Congregational Care -- Community-Wide Care -- Worship -- A Witness Coming to Wisdom -- Appendixes: Worship Resources -- Appendix 1: Prayers in the Midst of Trauma -- Appendix 2: Hymns -- Appendix 3: Vesper and Community Vigil Services -- Appendix 4: Sunday Service after Violence |
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Appendix 5: First Year Marker Service (Anniversary) -- Appendix 6: Additional Prayers and Litanies -- Appendix 7: Praise Song and Contemporary Music Suggestions -- Notes -- Suggested Readings -- Excerpt from Trauma and Grace, by Serene Jones |
| Summary |
Recovering from Un-Natural Disasters is a must-read handbook for pastors and church leaders of communities who could or perhaps already have experienced an un-natural disaster, such as gun violence, suicides, or sexual abuse. Unlike natural disasters, un-natural disasters deal with.. |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Pastoral psychology.
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Psychology, Religious.
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Violence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Suffering -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Psychic trauma -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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psychology of religion.
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Pastoral psychology.
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Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Psychic trauma -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Psychology, Religious.
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Suffering -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Violence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Holyan, David
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Wismer, Bruce
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| ISBN |
9781611647907 |
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1611647908 |
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