Religious Literacy in End of Life Care
A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444). This special issue belongs to the section "Religions and Health/Psychology/Social Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2020) | Viewed by 12123
Special Issue Editor
2. Faiths & Civil Society Unit, Goldsmiths University of London, London SE14 6NW, UK
Interests: end of life; death and dying; grief and bereavement; religion and belief; faith; spirituality; social policy; hospice and palliative care
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The conceptions of religion, nonreligion, faith, belief, and spirituality have long been explored in the context of end of life care. These explorations have navigated not only the links between (non)belief and death, dying and grief, but also ways in which to better understand the cultural, traditional, and personal impact that they have on human experience. Since the inception of the hospice movement, spirituality, if not the rest, has been embedded in the way we appreciate holistic care for the dying. Nonetheless, to develop a full comprehension of how this area presents itself in the twenty-first century, it seems important that the two distinct areas here are identified; namely, religion and end of life care. Both areas have seen tremendous changes in the course of the second half of the twentieth century and continue to do so into the twenty-first. The human alienation from faith and the dead body has led to a place of unawareness or perhaps lack of understanding of how to address both when the time comes that they are back in the core of the conversation (Walter, 1999 for death; Dinham and Francis, 2015 for religion and religious literacy).
Drawing on the framework of religious literacy (Dinham and Francis, 2015), this volume invites scholars to examine the ways in which religion, nonreligion, faith, belief, and spirituality, all together or independently, are integrated aspects of end of life care. The issue pays attention to the ever-growing diversity of belief, or lack thereof, and the recently recorded lack of religious literacy in this area (Pentaris, 2019), which raise concerns about the quality of religiously sensitive end of life care services. The issue is interested in bringing together the most current and ground-breaking work on religious literacy in end of life care, as documented with empirical evidence.
Dr. Panagiotis Pentaris
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- end of life care
- religion
- religious literacy
- spirituality
- hospice care
- palliative care
- faith
- belief
- nonreligion
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