Introduction: Pastoral Sounds

Mapping Mediterranean Portugal: Pastoral and Counter-pastoral

This article focuses on the different images of Mediterranean Portugal developed by three important Portuguese social scientists of the 20th century: the geographer Orlando Ribeiro, the ethnologist Jorge Dias and the social anthropologist José Cutileiro. The article argues that these different images stem from different ideological attitudes towards the countryside, ranging from pastoral to cou...

Pastoral psychology.

Pastoral Psychology is one of the oldest and most well established academic journals in the field of psychology and religion/spirituality. Since 1950, the journal offers an international interdisciplinary forum for the publication of original papers that discuss the work of caring for, understanding, and exploring human beings as persons, in families, in small groups, and in community. This pee...

Fecal contamination of pastoral wetlands.

Near-channel hill-country wetlands draining steep pastoral land in New Zealand exhibit high levels of fecal contamination at a range of flows. This contamination is attributed to both the transport of bacteria into a wetland from the surrounding catchment and the direct excretion of fecal material onto wetlands by grazing cattle. E. coli concentrations observed at low to moderate flow at 20 sit...

Recognising European pastoral farming systems

Psychological Problems and Pastoral Care

Her warning against telling the depressive "to pull himself together" or "humouri0^ the paranoid is still necessary in some quarters, although many points mention should already be known to an experienced parish priest. In obsessive illness aI\ reactive depression, the minister can play a most useful part in giving a Pafie{? hearing, comfort and re-assurance. "Anxiety-prone" seems a most timely...