Trauma and Renewal: Toward Spiritual, Communal, and Holistic Transformation - by Aizaiah G Yong (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

With the compelling pull of personal interwoven narratives and explorations, this book invites the sacred work of tending to trauma to be done holistically, through conscious spirituality, and in community. Addressing prominent themes in trauma care from the experience of both a spiritual director who has endured trauma and his father, a primary care provider and theologian addressing and addressing trauma, Yong and Yong provide practical tools for bringing spirituality to bear on the individual's traumatic experience as well as for spiritual directors and trauma care providers who desire a spirituality for and insight in support trauma care efforts and post traumatic growth. By offering practical invitations on integrating contemplative paradigms and new models of trauma care, this book shifts the conversation and engagement beyond individualist approaches to community- and culturally based trauma care and posttraumatic growth.

About the Author

Aizaiah Yong is assistant professor of spirituality at Claremont School of Theology. He is an ordained Pentecostal Christian minister and practical theologian who has served in religious and higher education leadership for over a decade, devoting his energy to healing and advocacy work that centers QTBIPOC communities. The author of Multiracial Cosmotheadrism: a Practical Theology of Multiracial Experiences, he also focuses his research on. contemplative spirituality, spiritual care, critical mixed race studies.

Amos Yong is professor of theology and mission at Fuller Theological Seminary and is the director of the School of Intercultural Studies' Center for Missiological Research. He has authored or edited more than 50 books and is a foundational theologian for contemporary Pentecostal theology, interacting with both traditional theological discussions and contemporary contextual theological developments.