Spirituality' in Health Studies: Competing Spiritualities and the Elevated Status of Mindfulness
The article investigates discourses of spirituality' in the field of Health Studies, among scholarly voices and the voices of the practitioners and patients these studies reflect. It examines current trends in contemporary spirituality as well as links with debates involving science, religion...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2019]
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Journal of religion and health
Year: 2019, Volume: 58, Issue: 5, Pages: 1605-1618 |
| Further subjects: | B
Spirituality
B Health B Religion B Science B Secularisation B Mindfulness |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| Summary: | The article investigates discourses of spirituality' in the field of Health Studies, among scholarly voices and the voices of the practitioners and patients these studies reflect. It examines current trends in contemporary spirituality as well as links with debates involving science, religion and secularisation. The article argues that, in the public domain, spirituality' is beginning to denote a collective practice rather than an individual search for meaning. Furthermore, the article identifies some common understandings of spirituality in the context of Health Studies and health environments, such as it being a tool that can facilitate closeness and emotional exchanges. Finally, it proposes that the success and, as I will show, elevated status of mindfulness' in this field points to competing spiritualities', despite shared understandings. |
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| ISSN: | 1573-6571 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and health
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10943-019-00773-2 |