Breathing for Life and Talking to God: Spiritual Contemplations of Muslim Patients during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Based on the empirical data, using thematic analysis, the major emergent theme ‘meaning-making’ is subjected to investigation. This is done by bringing relevant Islamic theological terms into the conversation. The aim of this study is to understand how critically ill Muslim patients relate to religi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2024
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Journal of empirical theology
Year: 2024, Volume: 37, Issue: 1, Pages: 94-118 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Denmark
/ COVID-19 (Disease)
/ Muslim
/ Religiosity
/ Spirituality
/ Constitution of meaning
/ Islamic theology
/ Geschichte 2021
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| IxTheo Classification: | AE Psychology of religion AG Religious life; material religion BJ Islam FA Theology KBE Northern Europe; Scandinavia TK Recent history |
| Further subjects: | B
munājā (Arabic: منجاة)
B relational spirituality B Spirituality B COVID-19 - Islamic theology B muḥāsaba (Arabic: محاسبة) B Meaning-making B Religion |
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| Summary: | Based on the empirical data, using thematic analysis, the major emergent theme ‘meaning-making’ is subjected to investigation. This is done by bringing relevant Islamic theological terms into the conversation. The aim of this study is to understand how critically ill Muslim patients relate to religion and spirituality in their meaning-making processes. As research on religion and spirituality at healthcare institutions gains momentum, there is still scarce knowledge pertaining to Muslim patients’ spirituality living in the West. In this article, I present and discuss the results from my qualitative study of 12 Muslim patients diagnosed with COVID-19 at Danish hospitals. I argue that there is both a theocentric and anthropocentric worldview prevalent amongst Muslim patients in the meaning-making process and what glues the two worldviews together is a ‘relational spirituality’. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-9256 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of empirical theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15709256-20240001 |