Published by De Gruyter

Studies in Spiritual Care

Edited by: Simon Peng-Keller, Eckhard Frick, Christina Puchalski and John Swinton

ISSN: 2511-8838

e-ISSN 2511-8846

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The interdisciplinary book series Studies in Spiritual Care (SCC) publishes international research ranging from studies on specific aspects of Spiritual Care to programmatic contributions to the self-understanding of this new practice and research area. The series is of interest to professionals working in the field as well as to students, researchers, and scholars from the fields of medicine, pastoral care, psychotherapy, and social work.

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Book 2022

Motivation, Sinn und Spiritual Care

Godehard Brüntrup, Eckhard Frick

Volume 9 in this series

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Spiritual care is often equated with caring for sick people who are trying to find meaning in their suffering. This volume confronts talk of meaning with the concept of motivation – that is, with the willingness to invest time and energy into pursuing a goal. Specialists from the fields of philosophy, medicine, psychology, and theology inquire into the external and inner criteria for an authentic spirituality of human action.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110787153
ISBN:: 9783110787153
ISBN:: 9783110787207
ISBN:: 9783110786873
Subject:: Medicine
Subject:: Clinical Medicine
Subject:: Psychiatry, Psychotherapy
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: General Topics and Biblical Reception
Subject:: Practical Theology
Subject:: Pastoral Counseling
Publisher:: De Gruyter

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Complexities of Spiritual Care in Plural Societies

Education, Praxis and Concepts

Anne Hege Grung

Volume 8 in this series

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This volume contributes to an emerging field that could be referred to as "plural spiritual care and chaplaincy". It's innovative approach brings together contributions from a broad range of contexts and religious traditions and includes empirical work and conceptual explorations. It helps to fill the gap between practices and developments related to plural spiritual care and chaplaincy in the scholarly discourse.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110717365
ISBN:: 9783110717365
ISBN:: 9783110717235
ISBN:: 9783110717389
Subject:: Medicine
Subject:: Assistive Professions, Nursing
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Practical Theology
Subject:: Pastoral Counseling
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Spirituality, Mental Health, and Social Support

A Community Approach

Beate Jakob, Birgit Weyel

Volume 7 in this series

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This book brings together studies on how congregations have resources which can promote health with a focus on accompanying people with depression as well as how congregations can be sensitized to mental health and the needs of persons living with mental disorders. In this collaboration, a close connection between research-studies was combined with a congregation-based implementation. In addition, a selection of surveys provide deep insights into the interaction between pastoral care, medical health care projects and spiritual care as a new discipline.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110674217
ISBN:: 9783110674217
ISBN:: 9783110673166
ISBN:: 9783110674286
Subject:: Medicine
Subject:: Assistive Professions, Nursing
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Practical Theology
Subject:: Pastoral Counseling
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2019

Spirituelle Erfahrung in philosophischer Perspektive

Eckhard Frick, Lydia Maidl

Volume 6 in this series

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Many people are looking for authentic and truthful spiritual experiences. In doing so, they might cross confessional and religious boundaries in order to come to the personal, existential interior of religion. In an interdisciplinary exchange between spiritual care and philosophy, this work examines the spiritual turn and explores the spiritual search and its relevance for everyday life.

This work examines this spiritual turn in an interdisciplinary exchange between spiritual care and philosophy. The focus is on describing spiritual experiences from philosophical perspectives and the presence and relevance of spirituality in everyday life.

These reflections on spirituality address the connections between self-knowledge and self-transcendence. Together with spirituality, they touch on ethics, the recognition of boundaries, the willingness to cross borders, and spirituality as an element of the physical experience of health and disease.

This discourse opens up a therapeutic horizon - especially when the question of meaning arises in life crises. It can provide stimuli for developing spiritual care in science, in practice, and in the context of health services.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110638066
ISBN:: 9783110638066
ISBN:: 9783110634563
ISBN:: 9783110635065
Subject:: Medicine
Subject:: Basic Medical Science
Subject:: History and Ethics of Medicine
Subject:: Philosophy
Subject:: Philosophical Anthropology
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Practical Theology
Subject:: Pastoral Counseling
Subject:: Religious Studies
Subject:: Psychology of Religion
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2020

Spirituality in the Biomedical World

Moving between Order and “Subversion”

Guy Jobin

Volume 5 in this series

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The need to take the spiritual experience during illness into account is part of a broader trend in Western societies—a fascination with the practical uses of spirituality and its contribution to individual wellbeing, whether through a religious or a humanist tradition. This understanding of spirituality differs from traditional views embedded in religious traditions. This book takes a critical point of view at the biomedical representation of the function of spirituality in care. Medicine reorders notions such as life, death, health, sickness, and spirituality. This process is called here “sapientialization”, i.e. the spiritual experience is expressed and understood under the auspices of and in terms of wisdom. This view tends to identify spirituality and ethics. I propose an alternate understanding of spirituality, grounded on its subversive power. Inspired by the work of the theologian John D. Caputo, it is critical of some problems that are associated with the sapientialization of spirituality in biomedicine, such as the medicalization of spiritual experiences or the instrumentalization of spirituality. It provides an understanding of spirituality that honours both the medical interest in it and its capacity to resist to instrumentalization.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110638950
ISBN:: 9783110638950
ISBN:: 9783110525267
ISBN:: 9783110639209
Subject:: Medicine
Subject:: Clinical Medicine
Subject:: Psychiatry, Psychotherapy
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Practical Theology
Subject:: Pastoral Counseling
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2018

Sterbenarrative

Hermeneutische Erkundungen des Erzählens am und vom Lebensende

Simon Peng-Keller, Andreas Mauz

Volume 4 in this series

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End-of-life research has long recognized the importance of narrative at the end of life. This volume draws on this work and explores narratives at and about the end of life from different perspectives. It focuses especially on testing the concept of the “death narrative.”

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110600247
ISBN:: 9783110600247
ISBN:: 9783110601114
ISBN:: 9783110599954
Subject:: Medicine
Subject:: Basic Medical Science
Subject:: History and Ethics of Medicine
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Practical Theology
Subject:: Pastoral Counseling
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2017

Die Betreuung Schwerkranker und Sterbender in Bayerischen Jüdischen Gemeinden heute

Michael Petery

Volume 3 in this series

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Since the 1990s, the numbers of Jewish communities in Bavaria have increased tenfold due to an influx of refugees. Many immigrants from the GUS states, however, brought physical and mental health problems with them and the mortality rate in these communities far exceeds their birth rate. The present study analyses this situation for the first time, focusing especially on how communities cope with these challenges.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110545333
ISBN:: 9783110545333
ISBN:: 9783110543476
ISBN:: 9783110543469
Subject:: Medicine
Subject:: Basic Medical Science
Subject:: History and Ethics of Medicine
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Practical Theology
Subject:: Pastoral Counseling
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2017

Bilder als Vertrauensbrücken

Die Symbolsprache Sterbender verstehen

Simon Peng-Keller

Volume 2 in this series

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The wish to understand the symbolic language of the dying has long been a fundamental concern of spiritual care. This volume provides an interdisciplinary overview from different specialized fields (pastoral care, nursing, psychotherapy, and psychiatry). The essays elucidate different forms of symbolic communication as well as the possibilities they create for spiritual guidance at the end of life.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110532524
ISBN:: 9783110532524
ISBN:: 9783110525205
ISBN:: 9783110531756
Subject:: Medicine
Subject:: Basic Medical Science
Subject:: History and Ethics of Medicine
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Practical Theology
Subject:: Pastoral Counseling
Publisher:: De Gruyter

Book 2017

Sinnereignisse in Todesnähe

Traum- und Wachvisionen Sterbender und Nahtoderfahrungen im Horizont von Spiritual Care

Simon Peng-Keller

Volume 1 in this series

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In the face of death, people often experience intense visual experiences. Our understanding of such phenomena has grown in recent years. For the first time, based on current research and personal reports, this study examines the different forms taken by such imagery in this unique realm of experience. The study illuminates their meaningfulness, and also explores their potential relevance for spiritual guidance.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110539998
ISBN:: 9783110539998
ISBN:: 9783110539790
ISBN:: 9783110473162
Subject:: Medicine
Subject:: Basic Medical Science
Subject:: History and Ethics of Medicine
Subject:: Theology and Religion
Subject:: Systematic Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Subject:: Ethics
Subject:: Practical Theology
Subject:: Pastoral Counseling
Subject:: Sociology of Religion
Publisher:: De Gruyter