Pastoral Counselling in a Changing Samoa: Development, Christianity and Relationality

In Samoa, development and Christianity are pervasive and dynamic features of social life, and they are also entangled together in complex ways. This article reviews these entanglements by examining counselling as a form of pastoral practice. Counselling involves interventions that seek to facilitate...

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Main Author: Pala’amo, Alesana (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] [2019]
In: Sites
Year: 2019, Volume: 16, Issue: 1
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