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Before Belief explores our first spiritual awareness, before language and cognitive understanding. This unconscious spiritual learning, beginning in infancy, is foundational for a relationship with God. The theoretical approach advanced in this volume is both constructive and pastorally sensitive.

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Before Belief explores our first spiritual awareness, before language and cognitive understanding. This unconscious spiritual learning, beginning in infancy, is foundational for a relationship with God. The theoretical approach advanced in this volume is both constructive and pastorally sensitive.

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What role do religious narratives play in the elevated rates of suicide attempt among LGBTQ people Taking a narrative approach to first-person accounts, this book addresses the potential violence of theological narratives upon queer souls and contributes to constructive methods of intervention toward the livability of life for queer people.

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Issues of clergy health and well-being are physical issues but also have social and theological dimensions. This book engages in interdisciplinary reconsideration of theological anthropology in light of the plasticity and performative quality of the embodied brain ecosystem, arguing that self-care is a critical component of loving ones neighbor.

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Digital technologies and the advance of artificial intelligence are changing human nature. This book explores implications for pastoral and spiritual care providers, religious faith communities, clinical practitioners, and educators and asserts the need for theological reflection about both the existential risk and the opportunities of this change.

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This book explores the concepts of care, faith, power, and community as a framework for addressing local and global problems linked to neoliberal capitalism, racism and classism.

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Pastoral Virtues for Artificial Intelligence explores hope, patience, play, wisdom, and compassion as fundamental traits for artificial intelligence. Incorporating these values into algorithms will minimize AI's biases of technological determinism, speed, objectivity, ignorance, and apathy.

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Through the rich stories of eight participants, the author explores the psychological, spiritual, and ritual dimensions of religious trauma among queer people and offers key recommendations for congregations and pastoral caregivers that seek to welcome those who have experienced religious trauma.

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This book explores the work, experience, language, and ambiguity of the profession of chaplaincy, tracing its struggles to professionalize in the hospital while caring for the human experiences of death and decline within its walls.

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Tilling Sacred Grounds centers Black women's interiority as a site for religious experience. Phillis Isabella Sheppard argues that interiority is a site for the negotiation of gender, race, and sexuality and finds articulation in public religious practice.

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This book expands on moral injury discourse and defines a new approach to conceptualizing and addressing moral injuries by articulating a new termmoral orienting systemsthat better describes the process of morally significant traumas.

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Women Leaving Prison uses qualitative research methods to uncover the spiritual and religious experiences of female returning citizens. The findings ground the call for a revised prison ministry praxis that details how people of faith and concerned citizens can facilitate returning sisters successful reentry and work to remove current injustices.

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What role do religious narratives play in the elevated rates of suicide attempt among LGBTQ people Taking a narrative approach to first-person accounts, this book addresses the potential violence of theological narratives upon queer souls and contributes to constructive methods of intervention toward the livability of life for queer people.