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Culture, Spirituality and Religious Literacy in Healthcare: Nordic Perspectives book cover

1st Edition

Culture, Spirituality and Religious Literacy in Healthcare Nordic Perspectives

Edited By Daniel Enstedt, Lisen Dellenborg Copyright 2024
258 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Elaborating with the concepts of culture and religious literacy, this volume examines theoretical, methodological and empirical aspects of the practice and study of religion and non-religion, culture, spirituality and worldviews within healthcare. In modern multi-cultural and multi-religious societies, a host of new issues have arisen concerning culture, religion and spirituality within... Read more

1.     Introducing Perspectives on Cultural and Religious Literacy in Healthcare

Lisen Dellenborg & Daniel Enstedt

PART I. Experiences and tensions in healthcare encounters 

2.     Learning together: Developing cultural and religious literacy at the workplace

Tone Lindheim

3.     Cultural encounters and religion in palliative care: Religious literacy and secular healthcare in multi-religious Sweden

Lisen Dellenborg & Daniel Enstedt

4.     When religiosity and healthcare merge: Case studies on sanctification of healthcare interventions with implications for religious literacy

Mikael Lundmark

5.     Culture of childbirth, midwifery and spirituality in an Icelandic context

Ólöf Ásta Ólafsdóttir

6.     Perceived Religious Discrimination in Healthcare: A Qualitative Study of Formal Complaints

Lise Eriksson, Victor Dudas, Aje Carlbom & Birgitta Essén

7.     Muslim women caregivers in elderly care in Finland

Shahnaj Begum

 

PART II. Existential care and person-centred care

8.     Making Sense of Existential Care: A sociological reconsideration of the existential for the study of chaplaincy

Erika Willander

9.     Religious literacy and person-centred care

Emma Lundberg

 

PART III. Overcoming Religious and cultural illiteracy in healthcare  

10.  The DöBra cards:A tool to support death literacy?

Malin Eneslätt, Therese Johansson, Krister Stoor & Carol Tishelman

11.  Magic, religion, and spirituality in a secularised institution: An anthropological gaze at Swedish healthcare

Lisen Dellenborg

12.  Understanding religion, non-religion, and spirituality in healthcare

Daniel Enstedt

13.  The Sense of Wonder as a necessary ‘philosophical literacy’ in healthcare

Finn Thorbjørn Hansen

14.  Afterword

Panagiotis Pentaris

Biography

Daniel Enstedt is Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in religious studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Lisen Dellenborg has a PhD in Social Anthropology and is Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Health and Care Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

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