Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/20440243.2021.1956245
L. Culliford
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Pub Date : 2021-06-03DOI: 10.1007/s10943-021-01300-y
Jeff Levin
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Pub Date : 2021-05-21DOI: 10.1080/20440243.2021.1922257
Ronita Mahilall, L. Swartz
ABSTRACT Globally, spiritual care is recognized as an important component of palliative care. In the Global North spiritual care training is gaining momentum and being prioritized, but not so in the Global South. This study seeks to establish what the national spiritual care training needs are in hospice palliative care settings with formalized spiritual care services in a middle-income country in the Global South. This was a three-part study: a quantitative national online survey of hospices in South Africa establishing what their spiritual care training needs were – survey results were collated, analyzed and filtered for key issues and overarching themes; a qualitative study consisting of focus group discussions with hospices in the Western Cape Province, South Africa, who have formalized spiritual care services, with the aim of understanding their spiritual care practices and workforce needs – the discussions were analyzed using thematic analysis; and a qualitative study drawing on the experiences of a cohort of spiritual care workers from an established hospice in Cape Town to understand their training needs in spiritual care and explore their workforce issues. Results revealed a chorused need for the development of a national training curriculum in spiritual care for hospices providing palliative care in South Africa and a chorused recognition that spiritual care services are nuanced and require both formalization and flexibility for spiritual care workers to be led by patient needs. Two elements – finance and human capital – were identified as key barriers to developing a spiritual care curriculum.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-17DOI: 10.1080/20440243.2021.1922256
A. Snider, Naomi Smith
ABSTRACT For this study, 40 people with a diagnosis of depression were interviewed about their conceptualisations of spirituality and religion, and whether or not this had an effect on their personal recovery from depression. The aim of the study was to explore the meanings of spirituality in the context of depression. Using a thematic analysis guided by a multi-perspective approach, this paper adds two novel qualities to the meanings of spirituality in the context of depression: ‘detachment’ and ‘comfort’. These are discussed in relation to research on the effects of spirituality on depression, and to current thematic research on experiences of spirituality among adults diagnosed with depression. The findings of this study are speculative and exploratory in nature.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/20440243.2021.1885940
A. Gray
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/20440243.2021.1885941
D. Bist, Peter Smith
ABSTRACT This article focuses on our personal experiences of the role of music and nature in healing. We explore ancient texts and more recent research in the area of music, neuromusicology and spirituality and correlate these with our experiences. One of us has suffered severe trauma in the form of a spinal cord injury; the other has experienced deep-vein thrombosis. We both present reflexive accounts which demonstrate how music played a part in the healing process; one of us also links this to the impact of the natural environment. We hope that others can benefit from the lessons we have learned from our experiences.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/20440243.2020.1861899
Joseph N. Goh
ABSTRACT Malaysian transgender people often experience suspicion, discrimination and rejection from their religious institutions. This article, written at the intersection of transgender and spirituality studies, aims to decipher the complexities of trans/imagining God, or formulations of individualised spirituality, in the lives of four transgender men. Using a constructivist grounded theory methodology, and assisted by Pargament’s notion of spiritual transformation and Tanis’s ideas on transgender spiritual traits to analyse and interpret the narratives of research participants, this article suggests that a trans/imagination of God is built on a reconfiguration of official religiosities, negotiations with romantic relationships, and a sense of obligation in terms of reaching out to others and acting ethically towards them.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/20440243.2021.1898807
Cheryl Hunt
In my last Editorial I wrote about the need ‘to hope for the best whilst preparing for the worst’ in relation to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and social and political disruption in various forms around the world. I invited consideration about the role and relevance of the study of spirituality in such times. Six months later, with the UK several weeks into its third ‘lockdown’ in an attempt to slow further spread of the virus, many similar restrictions in place elsewhere, and dangerous political tensions still in evidence in places as far apart as Myanmar, Russia and the USA, I sometimes feel as though we have all become trapped in a global ‘Groundhog Day’. That term entered the popular lexicon of the English language as a result of the 1993 film of the same name in which the lead character, Phil Connors, is caught in a time loop which forces him to re-live the same day repeatedly. Many people living in lockdown conditions, unable to socialise outside their own immediate household or to travel further than the nearest grocery store, will undoubtedly be able to relate to the time loop image as they contemplate the apparently repetitive ‘sameness’ of each day. However, it is worth looking beyond the cliché that ‘having a Groundhog Day’ has become because the event which gave its name to the film, as well as events within the film itself, bear some relationship to the study of spirituality and perhaps point to its particular significance at the present time. The time loop in which Phil Connors becomes trapped centres on a small town called Punxsutawney in Pennsylvania, USA. As a television weatherman, Phil is there to report on a ceremonial gathering and ritual which takes place each year on 2nd February. Cynical and egotistical, he makes no secret of his contempt for this assignment and everyone in the town. Much of the film is about how Phil comes to terms with his relationships with others and learns to understand himself. The event on which the film is based is a real one: what is now known as Groundhog Day has been celebrated annually in Punxsutawney since 1887. It is the day on which a groundhog is woken from its hibernation, ostensibly to predict the weather. Tradition has it that, if the day is sunny and the groundhog can see his shadow, there will be six more weeks of winter weather; if it is cloudy, and he therefore has no shadow, there will be an early spring. The tradition appears to have been imported by settlers from Germany where hedgehogs (or badgers, depending on which version of the story one reads) were deemed to have the power of weather prediction. The date is significant because, in the northern hemisphere, it is poised between winter and spring. The division of the year into segments, marked by the apparent movement of the sun across the sky and the associated seasonal changes, is a common theme in all human cultures since planting and harvesting depend upon it. Falling mid-way between the winter solstice
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/20440243.2021.1894672
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/20440243.2021.1894668
J. Service
Philosophy of language reminds us of the importance of linguistic naming for meaning. Wittgenstein emphasised the importance of the nexus between language and human activity, where words vivify and narrate significance of human experience. In a Kantian-influenced Western society, where reason and rationality oversee our more ambiguous experiences of spirituality, language to express the paradox of such an elusive-knowing is a pressing need. Such language or, in scholarly terms, ‘framework’ is what Noelia Molina offers, through her recent contribution to the growing field of spirituality studies, inMotherhood, Spirituality and Culture. Drawing on her expertise as a psychotherapist, her work examines and gives voice not only to the importance of spirituality for motherhood but to the impact the embodied birthing process has on forming spirituality. Molina’s research aims to establish a ‘maternal-spiritual framework’ (p. 196) to assist maternal learning for mothers and a broad category of caregivers and health professionals in the transitional stages of mothering, through an extensive literature review of spirituality and motherhood, alongside narratively descriptive interviews with mothers. Crucial questions scaffold Molina’s core thesis:
语言哲学提醒我们语言命名对意义的重要性。维特根斯坦强调了语言和人类活动之间联系的重要性，在语言中，语言生动地表达了人类经验的意义。在一个受康德影响的西方社会中，理性和理性监督着我们更模糊的精神体验，迫切需要用语言来表达这种难以捉摸的认识的悖论。诺埃莉亚·莫利纳（Noelia Molina）最近在《母性、精神与文化》（Motherhood，spirituality and Culture）一书中对日益增长的精神研究领域做出了贡献，她提供了这样的语言或学术术语中的“框架”。她的工作借鉴了她作为心理治疗师的专业知识，不仅审视并表达了精神对母性的重要性，还体现了具体的分娩过程对形成精神的影响。莫利纳的研究旨在建立一个“母亲精神框架”（第196页），通过对精神和母亲身份的广泛文献回顾，以及对母亲的叙述性描述性采访，帮助处于母亲身份过渡阶段的母亲以及广泛类别的照顾者和卫生专业人员进行母亲学习。关键问题支撑了莫利纳的核心论点：
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