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dc.contributor.authorBenedict, Timothy O.
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-03T12:31:15Z
dc.date.available2023-01-03T12:31:15Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/60475
dc.description.abstractWhat role does religion play at the end of life in Japan? Spiritual Ends draws on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews to provide an intimate portrayal of how spiritual care is provided to the dying in Japan. Timothy O. Benedict shows how hospice caregivers in Japan are appropriating and reinterpreting global ideas about spirituality and the practice of spiritual care. Benedict relates these findings to a longer story of how Japanese religious groups have pursued vocational roles in medical institutions as a means to demonstrate a so-called “healthy” role in society. Focusing on how care for the kokoro (heart or mind) is key to the practice of spiritual care, this book enriches conventional understandings of religious identity in Japan while offering a valuable East Asian perspective to global conversations on the ways religion, spirituality, and medicine intersect at death. “Timothy Benedict has produced a work brimming with wisdom drawn from his work as a chaplain as well as a broad understanding of the place of religion in the lives of contemporary Japanese people.” — HELEN HARDACRE, Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society, Harvard University “Benedict offers a highly original perspective and new insightful material, providing a critical approach to the debate about spiritual care and spirituality.” — ERICA BAFFELLI, Professor of Japanese Studies, University of Manchester “Spiritual Ends reveals an unassuming approach to spiritual care that privileges human connections at life’s end.” — JACQUELINE STONE, author of Right Thoughts at the Last Moment: Buddhism and Deathbed Practices in Early Medieval Japan “A discerning study of pain and comfort at the end of life, and a story of the invention of spirituality in Japan, which traffics between medical, psychological, and religious thought.” — AMY B. BOROVOY, Professor of East Asian Studies, Princeton Universityen_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefsen_US
dc.subject.otherreligion; dying; Japanen_US
dc.titleSpiritual Endsen_US
dc.title.alternativeReligion and the Heart of Dying in Japanen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1525/luminos.136en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy72f3a53e-04bb-4d73-b921-22a29d903b3ben_US
oapen.relation.isbn9780520388666en_US
oapen.pages209en_US
oapen.remark.publicFunder name: University of California Press Foundation


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