Negotiating the meaning of spirituality in holistic health care from a Chinese perspective
This paper argues for a cross-cultural understanding of spirituality, suggesting that the meanings of spirituality currently available in the holistic healthcare literature are largely Western, which are heavily loaded with a spirit-body dualism. This constitutes one of the reasons why many Chinese-...
| Published in: | Practical theology |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2018]
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Practical theology
Year: 2018, Volume: 11, Issue: 1, Pages: 17-28 |
| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BM Chinese universism; Confucianism; Taoism CB Christian life; spirituality KBM Asia NBE Anthropology RG Pastoral care |
| Further subjects: | B
Spirituality
B Asian theology B everyday resistance B body-spirit dualism B Daoist anthropology |
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| Summary: | This paper argues for a cross-cultural understanding of spirituality, suggesting that the meanings of spirituality currently available in the holistic healthcare literature are largely Western, which are heavily loaded with a spirit-body dualism. This constitutes one of the reasons why many Chinese-speaking people would not, or would not be able to, fully appreciate the importance of spirituality in the context of holism, which often manifests in Chinese clinical settings as an everyday resistance in the form of non-oppositional cultural alterity. At the end of the paper, the author suggests that inter-religious hospitality be adopted as a more promising way of interfaith spiritual care. |
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| ISSN: | 1756-0748 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Practical theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1756073X.2017.1413227 |