Timothy O Benedict

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Spiritual Ends: Religion and the Heart of Dying in Japan Volume 4Paperback, 20 December 2022

Spiritual Ends: Religion and the Heart of Dying in Japan Volume 4
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Part of Series
New Interventions in Japanese Studies
Print Length
208 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University of California Press
Date Published
20 Dec 2022
ISBN-10
0520388666
ISBN-13
9780520388666

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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 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.

Product Details

Author:
Timothy O Benedict
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
20 December 2022
Dimensions:
22.61 x 14.99 x 1.78 cm
ISBN-10:
0520388666
ISBN-13:
9780520388666
Language:
English
Pages:
208
Weight:
317.51 gm

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