 | The Cry of Tamar: Violence against Women and the Church''s Response, Second Edition Subjects: Women -- Crimes against -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Violence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Church work with women; Women -- Pastoral counseling of; In this comprehensive, practical, and gripping assessment of various forms of violence against women, Pamela Cooper-White challenges the Christian churches to examine their own responses to the cry of Tamar in our time. She describes specific forms of such violence and outlines appropriate pastoral responses. The second edition of this groundbreaking work is thoroughly updated and examines not only where the church has made progress since 1995 but also where women remain at unchanged or even greater risk of violence. Pamela Cooper-White , MDiv, PhD, LCPC, is Christiane Brooks Johnson Professor Emerita of Psychology and Religion and dean emerita at Union Theological Seminary in New York; an Episcopal priest and licensed psychotherapist; and the 2013-2014 Fulbright-Freud Scholar of Psychoanalysis in Vienna, Austria. An award-winning author, she has published ten books, including Many Voices: Pastoral Psychotherapy in Relational and Theological Perspective and The Psychology of Christian Nationalism . She is active on several editorial, academic, and psychoanalytic boards, and is a frequent speaker nationally and internationally. |
