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Religion and the Heart of Dying in Japan
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What role does religion play at the end of life in Japan? Spiritual Ends draws on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with hospice patients, chaplains, and medical workers to provide an intimate portrayal of how spiritual care is provided to the dying in Japan. Timothy O. Benedict uses both local and cross-cultural perspectives to show how global ideas about spirituality and the practice of spiritual care are being appropriated and reinterpreted in Japan. Benedict relates these findings to a longer story of how Japanese religious groups have pursued vocational roles in medical institutions as a means to demonstrate a so-called “healthy” role in society. By paying attention to how care for the kokoro (heart or mind) is key to the practice of spiritual care, this book enriches conventional understandings of religious identity in Japan, while offering a valuable East Asian perspective to global conversations on the ways religion, spirituality, and medicine intersect at death.

Author Biography:

Timothy O. Benedict is Assistant Professor in the School of Sociology at Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan.
Release date Australia
December 20th, 2022
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Illustrations
11 illustrations, 1 table
Pages
208
Dimensions
152x229x18
ISBN-13
9780520388666
Product ID
35863463

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