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Caring for Souls in a Neoliberal Age

Part of the New Approaches to Religion and Power Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-55339-3

ISBN: 978-1-137-55338-6

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Nov 9, 2016

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Chapter 1Introduction: Preface to a Post-Capitalist Pastoral Theology

Rogers-Vaughn, Bruce

Pages: 1 –34

[Rogers-Vaughn describes a shift in individuals seeking counseling: a greater degree of self-blame and shame, an increased incidence of mood disorders and addictions, and a more fragmented sense of self. He attributes this shift, and an accompanying deterioration of social well-being, to...
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Chapter 2Neoliberalism, Inequality, and the Erosion of Social Well-being

Rogers-Vaughn, Bruce

Pages: 35 –65

[In this chapter, Rogers-Vaughn identifies neoliberalism as an adaptive, reflexive, cultural process that continually morphs to reflect and transform the cultures in which it is embedded. Tracing the history of neoliberal thought from 1920 to the present, he provides a framework for understanding...
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Chapter 3Going Viral: The Neoliberal Infiltration of the Living Human Web

Rogers-Vaughn, Bruce

Pages: 67 –108

[Rogers-Vaughn investigates how neoliberal governance has infiltrated and modified the social, interpersonal, and psychological dimensions of human experience. Observing that the cultural norm of neoliberalism weakens all social institutions, Rogers-Vaughn identifies how neoliberal hegemony has...
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Chapter 4Neoliberalism as a Paradigm for Human Affliction: Third-Order Suffering as the New Normal

Rogers-Vaughn, Bruce

Pages: 109 –130

[Identifying neoliberal capitalism as an extension and radical transformation of war capitalism, Rogers-Vaughn posits neoliberalization as a highly efficient regime for the global production of suffering and subsequent privatization of death and violence. Rogers-Vaughn explores how contemporary...
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Chapter 5Muting and Mutating Suffering: Sexism, Racism, and Class Struggle

Rogers-Vaughn, Bruce

Pages: 131 –166

[Rogers-Vaughn identifies neoliberalism as an intrinsically sexist and racist project that both mutes and mutates racism and sexism as it intentionally re-institutes new forms of patriarchy and white supremacy, meanwhile claiming to promote equality, diversity, and multiculturalism. Under...
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Chapter 6Beyond Self-Management: Re-Membering Soul

Rogers-Vaughn, Bruce

Pages: 167 –207

[Rogers-Vaughn addresses how to respond to the effects of neoliberalism, suggesting hope (as distinct from neoliberal optimism) as the necessary response to suffering and despair. Identifying two levels of unconsciousness endemic to third-order suffering—suffering that is not aware of itself as...
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Chapter 7Concluding Theological Postscripts

Rogers-Vaughn, Bruce

Pages: 209 –241

[In conclusion, Rogers-Vaughn emphasizes that cultivating and strengthening collectives is the most important task of pastoral care. Caring for souls, he argues, requires a combination of social solidarity, political activity, and ontological affirmation. Rogers-Vaughn calls for deep solidarity...

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