Culture, Spirituality and Religious Literacy in Healthcare

ISBN-13: 9781032320540 / Twarda / 2023 / 246 str.

Opis

Elaborating with the concepts of culture and religious literacy, this volume examines theoretical, methodological and empirical aspects of the practice and study of religion and non-religion, culture, spirituality and worldviews within healthcare.

Spis treści

1.Introducing Perspectives on Cultural and Religious Literacy in Healthcare.  PART I. Experiences and tensions in healthcare encounters.  2.Learning together: Developing cultural and religious literacy at the workplace.  3.Cultural encounters and religion in palliative care: Religious literacy and secular healthcare in multi-religious Sweden.  4.When religiosity and healthcare merge: Case studies on sanctification of healthcare interventions with implications for religious literacy.  5.Culture of childbirth, midwifery and spirituality in an Icelandic context.  6.Perceived Religious Discrimination in Healthcare: A Qualitative Study of Formal Complaints.  7.Muslim women caregivers in elderly care in Finland.  PART II. Existential care and person-centred care.  8.Making Sense of Existential Care: A sociological reconsideration of the existential for the study of chaplaincy.  9.Religious literacy and person-centred care.  PART III. Overcoming Religious and cultural illiteracy in healthcare.  10.The DöBra cards:A tool to support death literacy?  11.Magic, religion, and spirituality in a secularised institution: An anthropological gaze at Swedish healthcare.  12.Understanding religion, non-religion, and spirituality in healthcare.  13.The Sense of Wonder as a necessary ‘philosophical literacy’ in healthcare.  14.Afterword. 

O autorze

Daniel Enstedt is Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in religious studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Lisen Dellenborg has a PhD in Social Anthropology and is Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Health and Care Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.