Heilsame Männerseelsorge: a holistic paradigm for the pastoral care of men

This project aims to address lacunae in the poimenic literature on a gender-sensitive pastoral care for men. It will show how elements from recent debates within poimenics and related disciplines can contribute to a new, gender-specific paradigm of “Heilsame Männerseelsorge”, a salutogenic and therapeutic pastoral care of men. This project will draw primarily on recent scholarly debates within German Protestant poimenics and bring them into dialogue with Anglo-Saxon and Roman Catholic approaches as well as insights from psychology and sociology. Building on the the researcher’s previous work, the project will integrate four important dimensions into the pastoral care of  men – the spiritual, the physical, the political, and the communal dimension.