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When Violence Is No Stranger

Pastoral Counseling with Survivors of Acquaintance Rape

  • Paperback
  • 192 pages
  • Publisher: 1517 Media
  • 14.1 x 21.7 x 1.4 cm

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The paucity of resources for pastoral care of acquaintance-rape survivors highlights the invisibility of this growing crime and its largely uncharted pastoral challenges. In fact, most rape is by an acquaintance. Only 16 percent of such cases are reported; and, because they are difficult to prosecute, only 5 percent of those reported result in guilty verdicts.

Focusing on the psychospiritual effects of this sexualized violence, Kristen Leslie offers the psychological and theological tools to religious professionals for understanding the deep spiritual trauma of the survivor and how best to work with her to reconstruct a personal world of meaning, trust, and faith. Based on extensive interviews with survivors, Leslie explains the personal and theological issues they raise, what they found helpful from religious professionals, the images and metaphors most germane to their trauma and recovery, and how they coped with or healed from the experience of rape.

An exemplary and important study in practical theology, Leslie's volume will not only equip pastoral caregivers and counselors with specific guidelines. It will also enlighten them on the crucial role that theology can play in the re-construction of shattered lives.

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  • Author

    Leslie

  • Book Format

    paperback

  • Publisher

    1517 Media

  • Published

    December 2002

  • Weight

    287g

  • Page Count

    192

  • Dimensions

    14.1 x 21.7 x 1.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9780800635756

  • ISBN-10

    0800635752

  • Eden Code

    116725

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    The violation of God incarnate in us, the sanctity of consent to sex, of womanhood is upheld and affirmed in her writing, with dignity and respect and compassion; she weaves her wisdom and insight and identifies (with extraordinary clarity and vision) the need for a shattered world after so much betrayal to be healed with a redemptive community, The irony and tyranny is our society promotes femininity to dehumanizing extremes then chastises and crushes women for their femininity when they are made to be victims of sexual violence, leading to a loss of self and loss of all virtuous notions of motherhood, virginity, forgiveness. Victims in seeking truth and justice perform a public service and need advocates in the church to rise up, take victims out of the stocks to be martyred and fight valiantly for justice as they are too called to end this appalling oppression. Something that is so amiss in our society. Her divine writing makes a case all the more for churches be involved and be at the forefront for rebuilding society that is in a state of moral collapse, with increasingly levels of sexual violence. If you read this book, you will see the Holy Spirit amidst your desecrated body where the presence of your assailant may have rested/left his presence. Her writing is not 1D dimensional that is non-relational but takes you to dimension of the trinity, a fourth Dimension, in which incorruptible good can be found and restored. As a victim I am compelled to fight on and realize her vision in God Kingdom.

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