Decolonial Pastoral Care for Cultural Trauma
Pastoral Theological Intervention in the Korean Context
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3209647 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hamin Kwak (0009-0007-9215-2499, Garrett–Evangelical Theological Seminary, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 170 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel15020170 |
| OpenAlex | W4391360950 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 21 |
This essay examines the connectedness between cultural trauma theory and decolonial studies in pastoral theology, demonstrating the denotation of collective trauma in South Korea and Korean Christianity from past colonial and war experiences. Although cultural trauma theory is well established in studying the case of the Holocaust and Western context, it has not yet explored the trauma of the Third World in a fully fledged manner. Rather, it still employs a Western-centered discourse that is unable to explain the disparity of power dynamics based on colonial values. Therefore, a critical analysis is essential to develop a decolonial discourse between cultural trauma theory and pastoral theology. The case of Korean cultural trauma and its relation to Korean Protestantism is a good starting point for addressing decolonial pastoral care in that the Korean church is still complicit in the colonial religious inheritances concerning its colonized ways of thinking and psyche. Throughout this essay, I argue that Korean social identity and Protestantism are reproducing the harmful reaction of in-group exclusion under the impact of cultural trauma. Finally, I provide a pastoral theological analysis of this discussion in order to suggest a new possibility of decolonial pastoral care for the traumatized Korean society and Christianity
Archaeology · Context (archaeology · Intervention (counseling · Pastoral care · Pastoral theology · Sociology · Theology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Medicine · Nursing · Philosophy · Religion, Society, and Development · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
Pastoral Theology and Care
Toward Psychologies of Liberation
The Long Defeat
Postcolonialism
Caring for Souls in a Neoliberal Age
The Holocaust and the Nakba
Cultural Trauma
Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity
The Burdens of Interpretation and the Question of Palestine
Immoral Rights
The End of the Cognitive Empire
Coloniality of Power and Eurocentrism in Latin America
Forgetting Hiroshima, remembering Auschwitz
Postcolonial and decolonial dialogues
The Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Colonial Difference
The Generation of Postmemory
Collective Memory and Cultural Identity
Culture as the Ideological Battleground of the Modern World-System
What Does Trauma Have to Do with Politics? Cultural Trauma and the Displaced Founding Political Elites of Israel and Turkey
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |