Spirituality in the biomedical world : moving between order and "subversion" / Guy Jobin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jobin, Guy, author.

Series:

Studies in spiritual care ; Volume 5.

Studies in spiritual care ; Volume 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spiritual care (Medical care).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (X, 174 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The need to take the spiritual experience during illness into account is part of a broader trend in Western societies—a fascination with the practical uses of spirituality and its contribution to individual wellbeing, whether through a religious or a humanist tradition. This understanding of spirituality differs from traditional views embedded in religious traditions. This book takes a critical point of view at the biomedical representation of the function of spirituality in care. Medicine reorders notions such as life, death, health, sickness, and spirituality. This process is called here “sapientialization”, i.e. the spiritual experience is expressed and understood under the auspices of and in terms of wisdom. This view tends to identify spirituality and ethics. I propose an alternate understanding of spirituality, grounded on its subversive power. Inspired by the work of the theologian John D. Caputo, it is critical of some problems that are associated with the sapientialization of spirituality in biomedicine, such as the medicalization of spiritual experiences or the instrumentalization of spirituality. It provides an understanding of spirituality that honours both the medical interest in it and its capacity to resist to instrumentalization.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

List of Tables

1. Introduction

2. About wisdom

3. A new biomedical order?

4. Sapientialization of the spiritual question

5. Pragmatic approaches to sapientialization

6. Challenges to sapientialization

7. Questions relating to spiritual anthropology

8. The spiritual experience as a response to an event

9. Spiritual life and traditions during illness

10. Conclusion

Credits

Bibliography

Index nominum

Index rerum

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3-11-063895-9

OCLC:

1163878880