How Spiritual Caregivers Can Help People Navigate Long-term Health Conditions
Many spiritual caregivers, including chaplains, spiritual directors and clergy, are unaware of how they can support people with chronic health conditions. This book combines insights on chronic illness with spiritual care skills and suggestions to enhance well-being for people living with long-term illness.
Healthcare chaplains working as part of interdisciplinary teams are frequently involved in contributing to discussions on all aspects of patients' wellbeing. This insightful collection of
case studies shows how chaplains can effectively support patients and their families in making decisions regarding medical care, as well as for ......
Chaplain James D. Johnson chose to accompany his men, unarmed, on their daily combat operations, a decision made against the recommendations of his superiors. During what would be the final days for some, he offered his ministry not from a pulpit but on the battlefields-in hot landing zones and rice paddies, in hospitals, aboard ship, and ......
Looks at human rights and Islam as a religious issue rather than a political or legal one and draws on three revered Islamic scholars to offer a range of perspectives that challenge our assumptions about the role of religion in human rights.
Looks at human rights and Islam as a religious issue rather than a political or legal one and draws on three revered Islamic scholars to offer a broad range of perspectives that challenge our assumptions about the role of religion in human rights.
Faith and Politics in the American Religious Mosaic
Does religion promote political mobilization? Are individuals motivated by their faith to focus on issues of social justice, personal morality, or both? This title examines these topics and assesses one question central to these issues: How does faith shape political action in America's diverse religious communities?
Faith and Politics in the American Religious Mosaic
Covers a mosaic of religious and ethnic perspectives with considerable breadth by examining evangelical Christians, the religious left, Catholics, Mormons, African Americans, Latinos, Jews, and Muslims. This book takes a look at the role of secular and antifundamentalist positions, adding an even wider outlook to the critical concerns.
What separates constructive religious impulses from destructive ones? How does someone who begins by contemplating his relationship with God end by committing an act of murder? Beyond analysing the nature of religious militancy, the author offers sensible recommendations for addressing what is to date the 21st century's most serious challenge.
Lays the groundwork for diversity as an intrinsic part of the life of faith and calls us to become bridge people, people who are willing to traverse gaps of ignorance and bridge the things that separate us.