Liberating Narratives

Author : Stefanie Sievers
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 3825839192

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Liberating Narratives by Stefanie Sievers Pdf

Three contemporary novels of slavery - Margaret Walker's Jubilee (1966), Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose (1986) and Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987) - are the central focus of Liberating Narratives. In significantly different ways that reflect their individual and socio-political contexts of origin, these three novels can all be read as critiques of historical representation and as alternative spaces for remembrance - 'sites of memory' - that attempt to shift the conceptual ground on which our knowledge of the past is based.

Author : Taiwo Afuape
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780415611886

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Power, Resistance and Liberation in Therapy with Survivors of Trauma by Taiwo Afuape Pdf

This book offers reflections on how liberation might be experienced by clients as a result of the therapeutic relationship. It explores how power and resistance might be most effectively and ethically understood and utilised in clinical practice with survivors of trauma. Power, Resistance and Liberation in Therapy with Survivors of Trauma draws together narrative therapy, Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM) and liberation psychology approaches. It critically reviews each approach and demonstrates what each contributes to the other as well as how to draw them together in a coherent way. The book presents: an original take on CMM through the lenses of power and resistance a new way of thinking about resistance in life and therapy, using the metaphor of creativity numerous case examples to support strong theory-practice links. Through the exploration of power, resistance and liberation in therapy, this book presents innovative ways of conceptualising these issues. As such it will be of interest to anyone in the mental health fields of therapy, counselling, social work or critical psychology, regardless of their preferred model. It will also appeal to those interested in a socio-political contextual analysis of complex human experience.

Author : Suzanne M. Coyle
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780800699291

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Uncovering Spiritual Narratives by Suzanne M. Coyle Pdf

All cultures use story as a way to make sense of life. Yet for many, only a single story line is seen as the "real truth." Using narrative therapy as a caregiving approach can help individuals uncover multilayered narratives that are far more complex and liberating. Drawing on theological approaches and real life experiences, Coyle creates a contextual pastoral theology that helps caregivers find the power of God in people's stories.

Author : Hazel Reid,Linden West
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317909293

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Constructing Narratives of Continuity and Change by Hazel Reid,Linden West Pdf

In this volume, academics and researchers across disciplines including education, psychology and health studies come together to discuss personal, political and professional narratives of struggle, resilience and hope. Contributors draw from a rich body of auto/biographical research to examine the role of narrative and how it can be constructed to compose a life story, considering the roles of significant others, inspirational, educational and fictional characters, and those in myth and legend. The book discusses how personal narrative, often neglected in social and psychological enquiry, can be a valuable resource across a range of settings. Reference is made to the evolving role of narrative in education and health care, medicine and psychotherapy. This includes how particular narratives are hardwired into culture in ways that stifle personal and social understanding. Rather than providing a ‘how to’ guide, the book illustrates the range and power of narrative, including poetry, to re-awaken senses of self and agency in extremis. Each chapter draws on specific research, describing the context, explaining the methodology, and illuminating important findings. Discussing implications for research and practice, this book will be key reading for postgraduate and doctoral students in auto/biographical and narrative studies, and across a range of disciplines, including education, health and social care, politics, counselling and psychotherapy. It will be of interest to academics teaching research methods, and those developing biographical and auto/biographical narrative research.

Author : Letty M. Russell,Margaret A. Farley,Serene Jones
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664257887

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Liberating Eschatology by Letty M. Russell,Margaret A. Farley,Serene Jones Pdf

This volume addresses a theme long essential to feminist and liberationist theology: in what can we hope, and what role should hope play in our actions and our lives? It provides a constructive set of proposals and fills a crucial gap in theological resources as well-known contributors address the theme from their different contexts and fields.

Author : P. Phillips
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137428684

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Prison Narratives from Boethius to Zana by P. Phillips Pdf

Prison Narratives from Boethius to Zana critically examines selected works of writers, from the sixth century to the twenty-first century, who were imprisoned for their beliefs. Chapters explore figures' lives, provide close analyses of their works, and offer contextualization of their prison writings.

Author : Laurel Dykstra,Ched Myers
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781610974011

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Liberating Biblical Study by Laurel Dykstra,Ched Myers Pdf

Liberating Biblical Study is a unique collaboration of pioneering biblical scholars, social-change activists, and movement-based artists. Well known and unknown, veterans and newcomers, these diverse practitioners of justice engage in a lively and critical conversation at the intersection of seminary, sanctuary, and street. The book is divided into eight sections; in each, a scholar, activist, and artist explore the justice issues related to a biblical text or idea, such as exodus, creation, jubilee, and sanctuary. Beyond the emerging themes (e.g., empire, resistance movements, identity, race, gender, and economics), the book raises essential questions at another level: What is the role of art in social-change movements? How can scholars be accountable beyond the academy, and activists encouraged to study? How are resistance movements nurtured and sustained? This volume is an accessible invitation to action that will appeal to all who love and strive for justice--whatever their discipline, and whatever their familiarity with the Bible, scholarship, art, and activist communities.

Author : Paola Boi
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3825866513

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CrossRoutes, the Meanings of "race" for the 21st Century by Paola Boi Pdf

This collection reflects the still urgent project of historical recuperation, as well as an examination of literary representations and other cultural manifestations of the Black Diaspora. Disciplinary work within the boundaries of African American Studies has been enhanced by more general considerations of the history of "race" and racism in globalized contexts. The articles assembled here reflect recent empirical research as well as challenging theoretical considerations. Contributions address particular formations of racialized modernity owed to the impact of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery, and thus broaden the approach to the Middle Passage, to improve our understanding of it as a constitutive transatlantic phenomenon in the widest possible sense.

Author : Melinda McGarrah Sharp
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781610972260

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Misunderstanding Stories by Melinda McGarrah Sharp Pdf

How can we work toward mutual understanding in our increasingly diverse and interconnected world? Pastoral theologian Melinda McGarrah Sharp approaches this multifaceted, interdisciplinary question by beginning with moments of intercultural misunderstanding. Using misunderstanding stories from her experience working with the Peace Corps in Suriname, Dr. McGarrah Sharp argues that we must recognize the limits of our own cultural perspectives in order to have meaningful intercultural encounters that are more mutually empowering and hopeful. Bringing together resources from pastoral theology, ethnography, and postcolonial studies, she provides a valuable resource for investigating the complexity of providing care and fostering communities of belonging across cultural differences. McGarrah Sharp illustrates a process of moving from disconnection to regard for diverse others as neighbors who share a common yearning for hopeful and meaningful connection. Leaders in faith communities, practitioners of care, and scholars will all be able to use this resource to better understand the conflicts, tensions, and uncertainties of our postcolonial twenty-first-century world. An included discussion guide facilitates classroom study, small group discussion, and personal reflection.

Author : G.C. van Roermund
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789401720519

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Law, Narrative and Reality by G.C. van Roermund Pdf

This book is at odds with the presuppositions behind a received view on law as a systematic solution to social problems in the name of justice. It argues that neither do facts in law represent social reality, nor do norms represent a moral ideal. Representationalism as such, in its various legal guises, is put to the test of what is called here `the interception hypothesis'. Although it is derived from the theory of literature (the theory of narrative) and corroborated by several close reading analyses of legal texts (both decisions and statutory rules), this hypothesis aims, in the first part, at providing an alternative model for the structure and the value of legal knowledge. The second part shows how this knowledge is operative in fundamental concepts like democracy, punishment and (contractual) obligation.

Author : Brandon Wrencher,Venneikia Samantha Williams
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666721072

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Liberating Church by Brandon Wrencher,Venneikia Samantha Williams Pdf

While the North American church grapples with an eroding position of privilege in society, there is a liberating vision of church from the margins. This manifesto defines eight marks of liberating churches that were identified through research of antebellum hush harbors. Hush harbors were the covert gatherings of enslaved Africans to worship and organize for change free from the surveillance of plantation Christianity. Liberating Church explores how the marks of antebellum hush harbors are being lived out now in several faith communities. This book offers a guide for anyone who wants to embrace innovative models for building spaces of faith and activism with structural critique and spiritual power.

Author : Claudia Franken
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3825847616

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Gertrude Stein, Writer and Thinker by Claudia Franken Pdf

Author : Ivan Petrella
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334048671

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Beyond Liberation Theology by Ivan Petrella Pdf

Liberation theologies are the most important theological movement of our time. In the 20th century, their influence shook the Third and First Worlds, grass root organizations and the affluent Western academy, as well as the lives of priests and laypeople persecuted and murdered for living out their understanding of the Christian message. In the 21st C their insights and goals remain – unfortunately – as valid as ever.

Author : Man Keung Ho,Janice M. Rasheed,Mikal N. Rasheed
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0761923918

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Family Therapy with Ethnic Minorities by Man Keung Ho,Janice M. Rasheed,Mikal N. Rasheed Pdf

The classic and critically acclaimed book Family Therapy with Ethnic Minorities, Second Edition has now been updated and revised to reflect the various demographic changes that have occurred in the lives of ethnic minority families and the implications of these changes for clinical practice. Family Therapy with Ethnic Minorities provides advanced students and practitioners with the most up-to-date examination yet of the theory, models, and techniques relevant to ethnic minority family functioning and therapy. After an introductory discussion of principles to be considered in practice with ethnic minorities, the authors apply these principles to working with specific ethnic minority groups, namely African Americans, Latinos, Asian/Pacific Americans, and First Nations People. Distinctive cultural values of each ethnic group are explored as well as specific guidelines and suggestions on culturally significant family therapy strategies and skills. Key Features: The revised text reflects advances in family therapy scholarship since the first edition thus ensuring for readers an up-to-date treatment of the topic Accents and extends current critical constructionist theories and techniques and applies them within a culturally specific perspective Pays special attention to the issues of 'historical trauma' (referred to as 'soul wound'), especially in work with First Nations Peoples and African American families /span

Author : Emerson B. Powery,Rodney S. Sadler Jr.
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611646597

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The Genesis of Liberation by Emerson B. Powery,Rodney S. Sadler Jr. Pdf

Considering that the Bible was used to justify and perpetuate African American enslavement, why would it be given such authority? In this fascinating volume, Powery and Sadler explore how the Bible became a source of liberation for enslaved African Americans by analyzing its function in pre-Civil War freedom narratives. They explain the various ways in which enslaved African Americans interpreted the Bible and used it as a source for hope, empowerment, and literacy. The authors show that through their own engagement with the biblical text, enslaved African Americans found a liberating word. The Genesis of Liberation recovers the early history of black biblical interpretation and will help to expand understandings of African American hermeneutics.