Introduction / Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook and Karen Brown Montagno -- Context, community, and pastoral care -- Midwives and holy subversives : resisting oppression in attending the birth of wholeness / Karen B. Montagno -- Love and power : antiracist pastoral care / Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook -- Engaging diversity and difference : from practices of exclusion to practices of practical solidarity / Brita L. Gill-Austern -- Pastoral care with African American women : womanist perspectives and strategies / Marsha I. Wiggins and Carmen Braun Williams -- Pastoral care from the Latina/o margins / Miguel A. De La Torre -- Pastoral care in the context of North American Asian communities / Greer Anne Wenh-In Ng -- Pastoral care from a Jewish perspective / Howard Cohen -- Light at the end of the tunnel : pastoral care for Muslims / Ahmed Nezar M. Kobeisy -- Developing a Buddhist approach to pastoral care : a peacemaker's view / Mikel Monnett -- Oppression-sensitive pastoral practice -- The tasks of oppression-sensitive pastoral caregiving and counseling / Donald M. Chinula -- Never at ease : Black, gay, and Christian / Cheryl Giles -- Addiction, power, and the question of powerlessness / Joel Glenn Wixson -- Flowers and songs : a liturgical community approach to pastoral care / Eric H.F. Law -- The politics of tears : lamentation as justice-making / William Blaine-Wallace -- Pastoral care with persons living with HIV/AIDS / Altagracia Perez -- Ableism : the face of oppression as experienced by people with disabilities / Carolyn Thompson -- Pastoral care with transgender people / Sarah Gibb Millspaugh -- Problems or partners? : senior adults and a new story for pastoral care / Janet Ramsey -- Pastoral care and gay men : the amazing and true story of the life and death of one good man / Christopher Medeiros -- The time of no room : changing patterns in responses to homelessness in Britain / Kenneth Leech -- Loss, death, and dying from a hospice perspective / Webb Brown -- Making (ritual) sense of our own lives / Elaine J. Ramshaw.