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Spiritual Ends: Religion and the Heart of Dying in Japan
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.

What role does religion play at the end of life in Japan? Spiritual Ends draws on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with hospice patients, chaplains, and medical workers to provide an intimate portrayal of how spiritual care is provided to the dying in Japan. Timothy O. Benedict uses both local and cross-cultural perspectives to show 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. By paying attention to 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.
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Spiritual Ends: Religion and the Heart of Dying in Japan
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.

What role does religion play at the end of life in Japan? Spiritual Ends draws on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with hospice patients, chaplains, and medical workers to provide an intimate portrayal of how spiritual care is provided to the dying in Japan. Timothy O. Benedict uses both local and cross-cultural perspectives to show 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. By paying attention to 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.
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Spiritual Ends: Religion and the Heart of Dying in Japan

Spiritual Ends: Religion and the Heart of Dying in Japan

by Timothy O. Benedict
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Spiritual Ends: Religion and the Heart of Dying in Japan

by Timothy O. Benedict

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A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.

What role does religion play at the end of life in Japan? Spiritual Ends draws on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with hospice patients, chaplains, and medical workers to provide an intimate portrayal of how spiritual care is provided to the dying in Japan. Timothy O. Benedict uses both local and cross-cultural perspectives to show 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. By paying attention to 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780520388666
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 12/20/2022
Series: New Interventions in Japanese Studies , #4
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Timothy O. Benedict is Assistant Professor in the School of Sociology at Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations viii

Preface ix

1 Soul Searching in the Japanese Hospice 1

2 The Rhythms of Hospice Care 16

3 The Heart of Practicing Spiritual Care 31

4 The Meaning of Spiritual Pain 50

5 The Invention of Japanese Spirituality 77

6 Making Healthy Religion 108

7 Last Thoughts 132

Acknowledgments 141

Notes 145

Bibliography 169

Index 185

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