A practical theology of bereavement care : re-ritualization within a paradigm of comforting presence
| dc.contributor.author | Gibson, L. | en_ZA |
| dc.contributor.author | Louw, D. J. (Daniel Johannes), 1944- | en_ZA |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-02-24T10:00:56Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-02-24T10:00:56Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
| dc.description | CITATION: Gibson, L. & Louw, D. J. 2018. A practical theology of bereavement care : re-ritualization within a paradigm of comforting presence. Stellenbosch Theological Journal, 4(2):521-551, doi:10.17570/stj.2018.v4n2.a24. | |
| dc.description | The original publication is available at https://ojs.reformedjournals.co.za/stj | |
| dc.description.abstract | The investigation focuses on a concern for the marginalization of bereaved human beings in the context of cultural shifts now shaping twenty-first century pastoral care. The article advocates for a practical theology of bereavement to aid in nurturing care and eudaimonic well-being (including both vocational pastors and funeral directors) within the paradigmatic framework of a theopaschitic understanding of compassion (oiktirmos). The investigation examines the growing threat of deritualization – a public openness to revise, replace, minimize the significance of, and even eliminate or avoid long-held funerary rituals to assist in the adaptation of loss. The notion of re-ritualization is operationalized as an intentional act of restoring and re-engaging in creative and meaningful ritual forms that give symbolic expression to significant thoughts and feelings of the bereaved within a social ethos that is no longer committed to a conventional or fixed approach to ritualization. In order to facilitate a process of re-ritualization, bereavement care is linked to the notion of “comforting presence”. | en_ZA |
| dc.description.uri | https://ojs.reformedjournals.co.za/stj/article/view/1912 | |
| dc.description.version | Publisher's version | |
| dc.format.extent | 31 pages | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Gibson, L. & Louw, D. J. 2018. A practical theology of bereavement care : re-ritualization within a paradigm of comforting presence. Stellenbosch Theological Journal, 4(2):521-551, doi:10.17570/stj.2018.v4n2.a24 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2413-9467 (online) | |
| dc.identifier.other | doi:10.17570/stj.2018.v4n2.a24 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/107521 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust | |
| dc.rights.holder | Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust | |
| dc.subject | Bereavemen -- Psychological aspect | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Caregivers -- Religious life | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Pastoral theology | en_ZA |
| dc.subject | Pastoral counseling | en_ZA |
| dc.title | A practical theology of bereavement care : re-ritualization within a paradigm of comforting presence | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Article | en_ZA |