Culture, Spirituality and Religious Literacy in Healthcare

Elaborating with the concepts of culture and religious literacy, this volume examines theoretical, methodological and empirical aspects of the practice and study of religion and non-religion, culture, spirituality and worldviews within healthcare.

Autorentext

Daniel Enstedt is Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in religious studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Lisen Dellenborg has a PhD in Social Anthropology and is Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Health and Care Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Inhalt

1.Introducing Perspectives on Cultural and Religious Literacy in Healthcare. PART I. Experiences and tensions in healthcare encounters. 2.Learning together: Developing cultural and religious literacy at the workplace. 3.Cultural encounters and religion in palliative care: Religious literacy and secular healthcare in multi-religious Sweden. 4.When religiosity and healthcare merge: Case studies on sanctification of healthcare interventions with implications for religious literacy. 5.Culture of childbirth, midwifery and spirituality in an Icelandic context. 6.Perceived Religious Discrimination in Healthcare: A Qualitative Study of Formal Complaints. 7.Muslim women caregivers in elderly care in Finland. PART II. Existential care and person-centred care. 8.Making Sense of Existential Care: A sociological reconsideration of the existential for the study of chaplaincy. 9.Religious literacy and person-centred care. PART III. Overcoming Religious and cultural illiteracy in healthcare. 10.The DöBra cards:A tool to support death literacy? 11.Magic, religion, and spirituality in a secularised institution: An anthropological gaze at Swedish healthcare. 12.Understanding religion, non-religion, and spirituality in healthcare. 13.The Sense of Wonder as a necessary 'philosophical literacy' in healthcare. 14.Afterword.