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Pastoral Counseling in Africa and the West is an insightful yet accessible exploration of counseling across cultures. The book helps readers appreciate the diversity of cultural contexts in which pastoral counseling is practiced and offers practical guidance for counseling people from different backgrounds. Based on original research, it highlights the significant gap between African and Western approaches. In Africa, pastoral counseling is shaped by an African worldview that integrates culture, prayer, spirituality, prophecy, and deliverance, with a strong emphasis on the active presence of the Holy Spirit. In contrast, Western pastoral counseling is grounded in professionalism and heavily influenced by psychology, which has gradually overshadowed scripture in some practices. The book also examines various forms of counseling-such as marital, family, and premarital counseling-and encourages mutual learning between African and Western practitioners. Ultimately, it calls for a balanced approach that values both cultural and theological depth in the ministry of counseling.

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Ibidun B. Daramola (PhD), a minister with the Church of Scotland, has lived and practiced counseling from different cultures. She served for many years as Training Secretary with the Nigeria Fellowship of Evangelical Students. As a teacher, a woman leader, a counselor and a communicator, she writes from her wealth of experience both in lay and professional counselling. She is a family counsellor passionate about families, mature, singles and young people.

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