Editorial Commentary: Religion and the Secular; the Sacred and the Profane: The Scope of the Argument

Fenn, Richard K.

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“…For example, the decline in institutional religious participation and authority meant that individuals no longer had formal religious resources to draw upon in times of need. Fenn (2003) has proposed that this gap is increasingly being filled by secular institutions. ‘The arts and crafts of teaching, healing, judging, predicting the future and pastoral care have been transferred from the church to educators, doctors, and an independent judiciary, social scientists and social workers and therapists’ (p. 5).…”

Section: Patterns Of Secularization and Sacralization In Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

Ontologies of nursing in an age of spiritual pluralism: closed or open worldview?

Pesut

2010

Nursing Philosophy

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North American society has undergone a period of sacralization where ideas of spirituality have increasingly been infused into the public domain. This sacralization is particularly evident in the nursing discourse where it is common to find claims about the nature of persons as inherently spiritual, about what a spiritually healthy person looks like and about the environment as spiritually energetic and interconnected. Nursing theoretical thinking has also used claims about the nature of persons, health, and the environment to attempt to establish a unified ontology for the discipline. However, despite this common ground, there has been little discussion about the intersections between nursing philosophic thinking and the spirituality in nursing discourse, or about the challenges of adopting a common view of these claims within a spiritually pluralist society. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the call for ontological unity within nursing philosophic thinking in the context of the sacralization of a diverse society. I will begin with a discussion of secularization and sacralization, illustrating the diversity of beliefs and experiences that characterize the current trend towards sacralization. I will then discuss the challenges of a unified ontological perspective, or closed world view, for this diversity, using examples from both a naturalistic and a unitary perspective. I will conclude by arguing for a unified approach within nursing ethics rather than nursing ontology.

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Section: Patterns Of Secularization and Sacralization In Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

Ontologies of nursing in an age of spiritual pluralism: closed or open worldview?

Pesut

2010

Nursing Philosophy

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“…Others suggested that Britain is now a secular culture with traces of a Christian identity, where secular means a rational worldview without heUefs in supernatural powers (Bmce 1995(Bmce ,2002 and where people regard their world "without the benefit of reUgious interpretations" (Berger 1967, 107-108). Other research argued that new forms of spirituaUty are growing which are subjective and experiential and suggest different ways of relating to "the sacred" (Fenn 2001;Heelas 1996;Heelas and Woodhead 2005;Wuthnow 2001). I agreed with Davie (1994,6) that there are several good but smaU studies ofthe "exotic edges" of reUgion in Britain, but "the picture in the middle remains alarmingly blurred" with very Uttle known about "the beUefs of ordinary British people in everyday Ufe.…”

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Nominal Christian Adherence

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2013

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It is the desire for belonging, not believing, that explains whv so many apparently non-religious people who do not believe in even the minimal tenets of organized religion will claim a religious identity in specific contexts. This paper draws on qualitative longitudinal empirical research seeking to explain that claim through exploring mainstream religious belief and identity in Euro-American countries. What is often described as nominal, fuzzy, or marginal adherence is far from an empty category, but one loaded with significance and similar to an ever-present, implicit religious oritentation described by Durkheim. The author develops nom inalism as characterized by a lack of a strong belief in a higher power, and indifference towards churches, but an (irregular) adherence to religion as a significant cultural, familial, and moral marker.

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“…Perhaps most importantly, the societal interest in spirituality without a corresponding commitment to institutional religious life has led some to speculate that the responsibility for the sacred in society has passed from institutional religion to the professions of society. 17 Professionals are now expected to play a role that was once borne by the institutional church, which may include helping individuals to reconcile spiritual beliefs with their health care decisions. If this is indeed the case, there is a need to understand more fully how professionals can incorporate spirituality into the context of care in an ethical manner.…”

Section: Unpacking the Obligation Of Spiritual Carementioning

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Incorporating Patients' Spirituality Into Care Using Gadow's Ethical Framework

Pesut

2009

Nurs Ethics

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Incorporating patients' spiritual beliefs into health care decision making is essential for ethically good care. Gadow's three-level ethical framework of ethical immediacy, ethical universalism, and relational narrative is presented as a tool for enhancing nurses' ability to explore and deepen understandings of patients' spiritual beliefs, given that these and their experiences are often expressed in a language that seems foreign to nurses. The demographic and cultural shifts that lead to the necessity to understand patients who use principles and metaphors that, while commonly understood within their spiritual tradition, may seem incomprehensible to outsiders, are here set in the Canadian context. A case study on palliative sedation is used to illustrate how the ethical framework can help to reveal the spiritual certainties, principles and narratives patients bring to their health care experiences.

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Editorial Commentary: Religion and the Secular; the Sacred and the Profane: The Scope of the Argument

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Ontologies of nursing in an age of spiritual pluralism: closed or open worldview?

Ontologies of nursing in an age of spiritual pluralism: closed or open worldview?

Nominal Christian Adherence

Incorporating Patients' Spirituality Into Care Using Gadow's Ethical Framework

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