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-...

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Main Author: Kwan, Simon Shui-Man (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group [2018]
In: 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
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)