Helping the Good Shepherd Pastoral Counselors in a Psychotherapeutic Culture, 1925-1975
This history of Protestant pastoral counseling in America examines the role of pastoral counselors in the construction and articulation of a liberal moral sensibility. Analyzing the relationship between religion and science in the twentieth century, Susan E. Myers-Shirk locates this sensibility in t...
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2009
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