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Through a careful ethnographic study of three black mega churches Dr. Beedoe provides a window into the pastoral care needs (met and unmet) of Afro-Caribbean immigrants. Her work is a significant contribution in the area of inter-cultural pastoral care and counseling and offers helpful guidance for culturally and contextually sensitive congregation care. -- Pamela Cooper-White, Christiane Brooks Johnson Memorial Chair in Psychology and Religion, Union Theological Seminary in New York Pastoral care and Counseling in Large/Mega Congregations: Black Caribbean's Perception of Care in Cultural Diversity is a welcomed and valuable book celebrating the significance of pastoral care and counseling for local congregations with memberships of Black Caribbeans. Following the historic dimensions of pastoral care and counseling, namely healing, sustaining, guiding, and reconciling, Dr. Beedoe demonstrates that there is a way of tailoring pastoral care and counseling to address the cultural and religious context of immigrants. Social construction plays a vital role in the object relationships we carry throughout our life even cross-culturally. Significant is the emphasis on relationships across at least three generations as well as communal caring practices that are distinctly committed to Caribbean cross generational relationships and consistent with certain ritual and cultural practices. -- Edward Wimberly, Methodist minister, the Jarena Lee professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling at the Interdenominational Theological Center

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Jean Beedoe currently teaches in the department of Religion and Theology at Oakwood University in Huntsville, Alabama.

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