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Spiritual Ends: Religion and the Heart of Dying in Japan |
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Benedict, Timothy O. (著)
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| Date | 2022 |
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| Pages | 208 |
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| Publisher | University of California Press |
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https://www.ucpress.edu/
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| Location | Berkeley, CA, US [伯克利, 加利福尼亞州, 美國] |
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| Series | New Interventions in Japanese Studies |
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| Content type | 書籍=Book |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Author Affiliation: Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan. |
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| Abstract | 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 hospice caregivers in Japan are appropriating and reinterpreting global ideas about spirituality and the practice of spiritual care. 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. |
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| Table of contents | List of Illustrations viii
Preface ix
1. Soul Searching in the Japanese Hospice 1
2. The Rhythms of Hospice Care 16
3. The Heart of Practicing Spiritual Care 31
4. The Meaning of Spiritual Pain 50
5. The Invention of Japanese Spirituality 77
6. Making Healthy Religion 108
7. Last Thoughts 132
Acknowledgments 141
Notes 145
Bibliography 169
Index 185 |
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| ISBN | 9780520388666; 0520388666 |
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| DOI | 10.1525/luminos.136 |
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| Related reviews | - Book Review: Spiritual Ends: Religion and the Heart of Dying in Japan by Timothy O. Benedict / Gaitanidis, Ioannis (評論)
- Book Review: Spiritual Ends: Religion and the Heart of Dying in Japan by Timothy O. Benedict / Lawton, Amy (評論)
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| Created date | 2024.03.15 |
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| Modified date | 2024.03.15 |
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