| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 255 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Advancing studies in religion ; 9
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Advancing studies in religion ; 9.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Expressions of Prayer in the Everyday / Sonya Sharma and Sheryl Reimer-Kirkham -- Creating an Inclusive Public Sphere: Healthcare and the Role of Prayer / Sheryl Reimer-Kirkham and Lori Beaman -- Mapping Geographies of Prayer / Melania Calestani, Sonya Sharma, and Christina Beardsley -- Organizational Priorities in the Management of Prayer / Sheryl Reimer-Kirkham, Christopher De Bono, and Barry Quinn -- Chaplaincy in Canada and the United Kingdom: Prayer and the Dynamics of Spiritual Care / Christina Beardsley, Andrew Todd, and Sheryl Reimer-Kirkham -- Prayer amongst the Many: Clinical Settings and Populations / Sheryl Reimer-Kirkham, Christina Beardsley, and Rachel Brown -- Complicating Religious Identities through the Social Relations of Prayer / Rachel Brown, Paul Bramadat, and Sylvia Collins-Mayo -- When Some "Body" Prays: Materiality and the Senses in Prayer / Rachel Brown and Melania Calestani -- Arts and Nature in Lived Experiences of Prayer / Sonya Sharma and Melania Calestani. |
| Summary |
"Healthcare settings are notoriously complex places where life and death co-exist, and where suffering is an everyday occurrence, giving rise to existential questions. The full range of society's diversity is reflected in the patients and staff. Increasing religious and ethnic plurality, alongside decades of secularizing trends, is bringing new attention to how religion and nonreligion are expressed in public spaces. Through critical ethnographic research in Vancouver and London, Prayer as Transgression? reveals how prayer occurs in hospitals, long-term care facilities, and community-based clinics in a variety of forms and circumstances. Prayer occurs quietly on the edges of day-to-day healthcare provision and in designated sacred spaces. Some requests for prayer, however, interrupt and transgress the clinical machinery of a hospital, such as when a patient asks for prayer from the chaplain while the operating room wait. With contributions by researchers, healthcare practitioners, and chaplains, the authors consider how prayer transgresses the clinical priorities that mark healthcare, opening up ways to think differently about institutional norms and social structures. They show how prayer highlights trends of secularization and sacralization in healthcare settings. They also consider the ambivalences about prayer arising from staff and patients' varied views on religion and spirituality, and their associated ethical concerns amidst clinical and workload demands. A window onto religion in the public sphere, Prayer as Transgression? tells much about how people live well together, even in the face of personal crises and fragilities, suffering, diversity, and social change."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Health -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Health -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
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Prayer -- Christianity.
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Prayer -- Christianity. |
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RELIGION / Prayer. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Reimer-Kirkham, Sheryl, editor.
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Beardsley, Christina, contributor.
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Container of (work): Sharma, Sonya.
Expressions of prayer in the everyday.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Prayer as transgression? Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020 022800165X 9780228001652 (OCoLC)1126219110 |
| ISBN |
9780228002987 electronic book |
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0228002974 electronic book |
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9780228002970 electronic book |
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0228002982 electronic book |
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