Belonging to the World through Body, Trust, and Trinity: Climate Change and Pastoral Care with University Students
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Belonging to the World through Body, Trust, and Trinity : Climate Change and Pastoral Care with University Students. / Johannessen, Christine Tind.
In: Religions, Vol. 13, No. 6, 527, 2022.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Belonging to the World through Body, Trust, and Trinity
T2 - Climate Change and Pastoral Care with University Students
AU - Johannessen, Christine Tind
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This article explores how pastoral care is performed in an age of climate change. University students suffer from a wide range of stresses, reducing their well-being. Climate change compounds these stress reactions, even where students are not directly affected. As climate change affects concrete, material matters, human reactions to it may no longer be viewed and treated as purely inner psychic states. Thus, climate change disrupts usual divisions of material, social, and mental features as separate categories, underscoring instead the close-knit relations between them. Given the far-reaching ways climate change affects mental health, the article presents an ethnographical-theologically-driven model for basic conversation in pastoral care with students in the midst of escalating climate events. Making use of theories from anthropology, psychology, and theology, this article builds on in-depth interviews with Danish university chaplains about their pastoral care with students. The model extrapolates from these theories how pastoral care may support students in the era of climate change through a triad of organizing themes that come to the fore in the interviews: “Mothering the Content”, “Loving Vital Force”, and “Befriending the Environment”.
AB - This article explores how pastoral care is performed in an age of climate change. University students suffer from a wide range of stresses, reducing their well-being. Climate change compounds these stress reactions, even where students are not directly affected. As climate change affects concrete, material matters, human reactions to it may no longer be viewed and treated as purely inner psychic states. Thus, climate change disrupts usual divisions of material, social, and mental features as separate categories, underscoring instead the close-knit relations between them. Given the far-reaching ways climate change affects mental health, the article presents an ethnographical-theologically-driven model for basic conversation in pastoral care with students in the midst of escalating climate events. Making use of theories from anthropology, psychology, and theology, this article builds on in-depth interviews with Danish university chaplains about their pastoral care with students. The model extrapolates from these theories how pastoral care may support students in the era of climate change through a triad of organizing themes that come to the fore in the interviews: “Mothering the Content”, “Loving Vital Force”, and “Befriending the Environment”.
KW - climate change
KW - ethnography
KW - feminist theology
KW - in-depth interview
KW - mentalizing
KW - pastoral care
KW - psychological stress
KW - sustainability
KW - the new climatic regime
KW - trinity
KW - university students
U2 - 10.3390/rel13060527
DO - 10.3390/rel13060527
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85132554211
VL - 13
JO - Religions
JF - Religions
SN - 2077-1444
IS - 6
M1 - 527
ER -
ID: 346530027