Pastoral Care and Counseling with Latino/As (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780800638207)

The Latino population is a pastorally challenging polyculture. This diversity requires spiritual caregivers to approach every Hispanic individual with humbleness. "Cada persona es un mundo," "every person is a world," says Montilla. To equip professionals in ministry for their ministry with and for Latino/as, Montilla centers his presentation on families and rituals at the heart and soul of the Hispanic community as the key to caregiving. In that context he unfolds a variegated picture of the particular cultural guideposts for Latinas and Latinos in the U.S. today, especially their symbols and rituals, attitudes toward health and healing, abiding faith, and contemporary quest for creative agency and dignity. He closes by exploring pastoral strategies with issues of discrimination and racism, and contemporary issues in providing pastoral counseling with Latinas and Latinos.

Author: R. Esteban Montilla, Ferney Medina
ISBN-10: 0800638204
ISBN-13: 9780800638207
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2006
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.92h x 5.52w x 0.39d

Review Citation(s):
Multicultural Review 05/01/2007 pg. 79