Anxious Experts : Disaster Response and Spiritual Care from 9/11 to the Climate Crisis / Joshua Moses.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moses, Joshua, author.

Series:

Critical studies in risk and disaster.

Critical Studies in Risk and Disaster Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crisis management--Religious aspects.

Crisis management.

Disaster relief--Psychological aspects.

Disaster relief.

Disaster victims--Mental health services.

Disaster victims.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2022]

Summary:

"It is commonplace that people search for meaning in the aftermath of disaster. But what if the experts charged with providing that meaning do not have the required tools? This book focuses on disaster-related spiritual expertise following the attacks of September 11th 2001, while showing how these dynamics have only become more insistent as the climate crisis has intensified"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : "There's something going on, and it's bad"

A patchwork of disaster expertise : a brief genealogy

Interlude : "Talking to the dead"

Bureaucratic spirituality and disaster response : from anxious individuals to anxious organizations

Interlude : "The wisdom of the body"

Mechanics of the spirit

Interlude : "God speaks through me"

From neuro-spirituality to global transformation of trauma

Conclusion : The ends of anxiety.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780812298437

0812298438

OCLC:

1298393799