Emerging as Affirmative Pastoral Caregivers Beyond Gender Binaries: Gender Creative Promise

Gender Creative Promise offers a gender diverse theological imagination and a "gender creative" interpretative lens on scripture to provide affirmative pastoral caregiving beyond gender binaries. It introduces diverse individuals, four continua of gender, a gender affirmative psychotherapeutic model, resilience strategies, and scripturally-based principles. The author encourages readers to explore their gendered selves and become pastoral change-makers.

Format: Hardback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 20 November 2023
Publisher: Lexington Books

Gender Creative Promise is a groundbreaking book that offers a unique perspective on pastoral theology by embracing a gender diverse theological imagination. It goes beyond traditional gender binaries by employing a "gender creative" interpretative lens on scripture, drawing inspiration from psychologist Diane Ehrensaft's work with transgender and gender-nonconforming children and their parents. The reader is introduced to a diverse range of individuals who exhibit gender variance, encompassing four continua of gender: sex, identity, expression, and attraction. The book presents a gender affirmative psychotherapeutic model as a framework for pastoral theology, highlighting common resilience strategies employed by transgender individuals in the face of cultural oppression and discrimination. It also explores the benefits derived from religious affiliation, which can enhance resilience and provide a supportive community for transgender individuals. Moreover, the book offers scripturally-based principles for delivering affirmative pastoral caregiving beyond gender binaries, encouraging readers to engage in introspection and wrestle with the complexities of their own gendered selves as they embark on a journey of becoming pastoral change-makers in their teaching, ministry, and caregiving roles.

Gender Creative Promise is a groundbreaking book that offers a unique perspective on pastoral theology by embracing a gender diverse theological imagination. It goes beyond traditional gender binaries by employing a "gender creative" interpretative lens on scripture, drawing inspiration from psychologist Diane Ehrensaft's work with transgender and gender-nonconforming children and their parents. The reader is introduced to a diverse range of individuals who exhibit gender variance, encompassing four continua of gender: sex, identity, expression, and attraction. The book presents a gender affirmative psychotherapeutic model as a framework for pastoral theology, highlighting common resilience strategies employed by transgender individuals in the face of cultural oppression and discrimination. It also explores the benefits derived from religious affiliation, which can enhance resilience and provide a supportive community for transgender individuals. Moreover, the book offers scripturally-based principles for delivering affirmative pastoral caregiving beyond gender binaries, encouraging readers to engage in introspection and wrestle with the complexities of their own gendered selves as they embark on a journey of becoming pastoral change-makers in their teaching, ministry, and caregiving roles.

Weight: 481g
Dimension: 237 x 157 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781666934014