David Kirk Beedon

Pastoral Care for the Incarcerated

Hope Deferred, Humanity Diminished?

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores and formulates a response to the question: How best can those held in modern systems of mass incarceration be cared for pastorally when many prisons diminish both hope and humanity? Employing the multi-disciplinary approach of practical theology, this ethnographic enquiry will be a guide for chaplains and all who strive to embody compassion wherever human flourishing is undermined. The book's structure follows the pastoral cycle method from practical theology, remaining context-based and practice-focused throughout. Pastoral insights are illustrated with personal, poetic and movingly reflective material drawn from the lived experience of indeterminately sentenced men who did not know if or when they would be ever released. The author, a former prison chaplain, remains reflexively and humanely present in the text, modelling the profound humane regard and pastoral presence that is central to this work. This book will take the reader deeply into penal spaces on a journey of both compassion and hope.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-031-13271-1
• 1st ed. 2022
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9783031132711
• ISBN-10: 3031132718
• Artikelnr.: 64280272

Autorenporträt

David Kirk Beedon is an Anglican Priest and former chaplain in Her Majesty's Prison and Probation Service in England and Wales. In 2020 he was awarded a Doctorate in Practical Theology for his prison-based research.   

Inhaltsangabe

IntroductionFound Poem 1Part 1 - DEFINING the IssueCHAPTER ONE - Modern Mass Incarceration: Can It Be Humanised?Found Poem 2CHAPTER TWO - A Case In Point: A Socio-Historical Critique of Indeterminate SentencesFound Poem 3Part 2 - DESCRIBING the ContextCHAPTER THREE - Entering Lived Experience (From Theory to Reality)Found Poem 4CHAPTER FOUR - Tales From the Shadow of DespairFound Poem 5Part 3 - REFLECTING on PracticeCHAPTER FIVE - Seeking Hope and HumanityFound Poem 6CHAPTER SIX - A Pastoral ResponseFound Poem 7Part 4 - ACTING CompassionatelyCHAPTER SEVEN - Improving Pastoral Penal PracticeFound Poem 8Final ReflectionFound Poem 9