Spirituality in the Biomedical World : : Moving between Order and “Subversion” / / Guy Jobin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• VerfasserIn: Jobin, Guy,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Spiritual Care , 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (X, 174 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; List of Tables --; 1. Introduction --; Part I. Order, or the sapientialization of the spiritual experience --; 2. About wisdom --; 3. A new biomedical order? --; 4. Sapientialization of the spiritual question --; 5. Pragmatic approaches to sapientialization --; 6. Challenges to sapientialization --; Part II. The “subversive” nature of spirituality in healthcare --; 7. Questions relating to spiritual anthropology --; 8. The spiritual experience as a response to an event --; 9. Spiritual life and traditions during illness --; 10. Conclusion --; Credits --; Bibliography --; Index nominum --; Index rerum
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110638950; 9783110696288; 9783110696271; 9783110659061; 9783110704716; 9783110704518; 9783110704778; 9783110704570
• ISSN: 2511-8838
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110638950
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Guy Jobin.

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.