Lartey has lived and taught for many years in Africa, Great Britain, and the United States. He shares his intercultural approach to pastoral care, an approach which is vital to the increasingly wide range of both lay and ordained practitioners who work in different settings, whether new to the field or already established.
The meaning of pastoral care in modern multicultural societies is challenged and re-examined from a pluralistic, global perspective in this book. Lartey stresses the importance of recognizing different cultural influences on individuals in order to effectively counsel, guide and empower them. He provides a concise history of pastoral care.
Healing is central to any understanding of African Christianity. In this volume, the second in the African Pastoral Studies series offered by the African Association for Pastoral Studies and Counselling (AAPSC), African Christian theologians and health care professionals present studies of different aspects of the quest for health and wholeness in Africa today. Aspects of psychotherapy, traditional medicine, ritual and symbol systems as well as healing communities encountered within the sub-Saharan African sub-region are explored. Experiences from Francophone as well as Anglophone Africa inform the studies. Christian perspectives on spirituality and wholeness as perceived through African eyes are offered in response to and as a challenge for the Church in Africa.