Portable Roots

Transplanting the Bicultural Child
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4438-5697-3
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 139 Seiten

Bicultural individuals often articulate the themes of rootlessness, identity formation, cultural dissolution, and “home”, and reframe them into theological questions. Bicultural individuals who have spent their formative childhood years living in, and interacting with, two or more cultures can be found in immigrant, refugee, transnational, missionary, borderland, and hybrid communities.

This book challenges the traditional understanding of human development. In particular, Portable Roots: Transplanting the Bicultural Child underscores the contextual and religious nature of development. By focusing on identity formation in children and adolescents who have grown up in more than one culture, the parameters of stage theorists such as Erik Erikson are expanded.

Three samples of children of missionaries formed the initial research population. The children were raised in boarding schools, mission schools, and international schools – settings which have been likened to a hybrid or third culture or interstitial space. These original three samples first articulated a phenomenon of “rootlessness” that sent the author on an investigative journey spanning three decades. After interviewing many persons with portable roots, the study’s last sampling in Princeton, New Jersey, in 2012, articulated what was needed for the end of this quest: how transplanted roots thrive in terra firma.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stevenson-Moessner, Jeanne

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Kultureller Wandel, Kulturkontakt, Akkulturation
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen

Über Autor(innen)

Stevenson-Moessner, Jeanne
Dr Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner is Professor of Pastoral Care at Perkins School of Theology (Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas); an ordained Presbyterian minister (PCUSA); a Fellow in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors; a member of the International Academy of Practical Theology; a Henry Luce III Fellow; former missionary schoolteacher; and past Chair of the Society for Pastoral Theology. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University, Princeton Theological Seminary, and the University of Basel, Switzerland. Her dissertation in Basel and her experience as a schoolteacher in a missionary Internat in the Black Forest of Germany gave her a foundation for this book and previous articles. She has edited four volumes, written five monographs, and published numerous articles. Dr Stevenson-Moessner has trained in rape crisis centers, a child abuse council, an addictive disease unit, four domestic violence programs, a community mental health clinic and a three-year residency at Georgia Baptist Hospital in Atlanta. Most recently, she completed a 2012 residency at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, writing on the topic of the bicultural child.

Dr Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner is Professor of Pastoral Care at Perkins School of Theology (Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas); an ordained Presbyterian minister (PCUSA); a Fellow in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors; a member of the International Academy of Practical Theology; a Henry Luce III Fellow; former missionary schoolteacher; and past Chair of the Society for Pastoral Theology. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University, Princeton Theological Seminary, and the University of Basel, Switzerland. Her dissertation in Basel and her experience as a schoolteacher in a missionary Internat in the Black Forest of Germany gave her a foundation for this book and previous articles. She has edited four volumes, written five monographs, and published numerous articles. Dr Stevenson-Moessner has trained in rape crisis centers, a child abuse council, an addictive disease unit, four domestic violence programs, a community mental health clinic and a three-year residency at Georgia Baptist Hospital in Atlanta. Most recently, she completed a 2012 residency at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, writing on the topic of the bicultural child.