Listening for Safe Places:
Networks of Playing and Chalcedon in Disaster Pastoral Care

TY - JOUR

T1 - Listening for Safe Places:
Networks of Playing and Chalcedon in Disaster Pastoral Care

AU - Johannessen-Henry, Christine Tind

PY - 2017/12

Y1 - 2017/12

N2 - Disaster pastoral care operates in diverse contexts, which may challenge clergy responders in ecclesiological meaning-making of their practices of care. This article argues that pastoral care may be imagined as part of a larger “network” of caring acts understood as a collective, multiple care practice. Such practice reflects deep-rooted movements described in psychoanalytical theory as playing, and the christological idea of communication of properties. Therein, spiritual “safe places” can be seen to emerge, even in the midst of traumatic events.

AB - Disaster pastoral care operates in diverse contexts, which may challenge clergy responders in ecclesiological meaning-making of their practices of care. This article argues that pastoral care may be imagined as part of a larger “network” of caring acts understood as a collective, multiple care practice. Such practice reflects deep-rooted movements described in psychoanalytical theory as playing, and the christological idea of communication of properties. Therein, spiritual “safe places” can be seen to emerge, even in the midst of traumatic events.

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0939-4060

VL - 54

JO - Dialog

JF - Dialog

IS - 4

ER -