Justice Matters

Introduction 1. Justice Matters: Spiritual Care and Pastoral Theological Imaginations in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic Constructive Pastoral Theology in Times of Pandemic and Racial Injustice 2. A Pastoral Theology of Dwelling: Political Belonging in the Face of a Pandemic, Racism, and the Anthropocene Age 3. Wired for Fear: Recognizing and Countering Implicit Bias in the Brain African American and Asian American Pastoral Theological Imaginations 4. A Pandemic of Mistreatment: Theories, Practices, and Convergences in Womanist Clinical Pastoral Theology and Black Maternal Healthcare During COVID-19 5. Can America be Saved? A Pastoral Response to Racism and COVID-19 and an Appeal for Dreams, Visions, and Imagination 6. When Xenophobia Spreads Like a Plague: A Critical Pastoral Theological Reflection on Anti-Asian Racism During the COVID-19 Pandemic 7. From the Yellow Peril to the Model Minority and Back Again: Unraveling the Orientalist Representations of Asian Americans in the Age of COVID-19 Pastoral Theological Imaginations for Persons with Disability and Foster Family 8. The ‘Reopen Churches’ Conversation: Disabilities and the Margins 9. Even More Tenuous Connections: A Pastoral Theological Analysis of Foster Care During COVID-19 Pastoral Theological Imagination in Ghana 10. Christianity and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Pastoral and Theological Reflection from the Ghanaian Context