Geographies and Accompaniment: Toward an Ecclesial Re-ordering of the Art of Dying

This article identifies three geographical shifts that have altered the relative social, spatial and temporal locations of dying, church and health care, and axiology causally contributing to our culture’s deformed dying processes. It proposes an alternative script for a new art of dying drawing upo...

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Published in:Studies in Christian ethics
Main Author: Lysaught, M. Therese 1963- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage [2016]
In: Studies in Christian ethics
IxTheo Classification:CH Christianity and Society
NCH Medical ethics
RB Church office; congregation
Further subjects:B Death Religious aspects
B Geography
B Diminishment
B care for the dying
B Aging
B Order of Widows
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Summary:This article identifies three geographical shifts that have altered the relative social, spatial and temporal locations of dying, church and health care, and axiology causally contributing to our culture’s deformed dying processes. It proposes an alternative script for a new art of dying drawing upon the early church’s practice of the order of widows.
ISSN:0953-9468
Contains:Enthalten in: Studies in Christian ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0953946816642977