Healthcare Chaplaincy as Specialised Spiritual Care

The Christian Call for Healing in a Global Health Context
1. Auflage 2024, übersetzt und erweitert 2024
ISBN: 978-3-525-60031-3
Verlag: Vandenhoeck + Ruprecht

Buch, Deutsch, Englisch, 202 Seiten, kartoniert, Format (B × H): 126 mm x 204 mm, Gewicht: 241 g

Is healthcare chaplaincy a health profession? This book argues that it is. It is a plea for Christian healthcare chaplaincy to be practiced as a form of specialized spiritual care, and to be understood anew within the horizon of the Christian call for healing. Only in close cooperation with other healthcare professionals, it is argued, can healthcare chaplaincy fulfil its mission and promote encompassing and evidence-based care for patients and their relatives. And only by recentering on their spiritual resources, can Christian healthcare chaplains contribute in their own unique way to healing processes and to coping with illness, dying, and grief.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Peng-Keller, Simon

Weitere Mitwirkende

Dolby, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Soziallehre und Sozialethik, Pastoral und Seelsorge
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Gesundheitssystem, Gesundheitswesen

Über Autor(innen)

Peng-Keller, Simon
Simon Peng-Keller is Professor of Spiritual Care at the University of Zurich. From 2016 to 2020, he was a chaplain at the Competence Centre for Palliative Care at Zurich University Hospital. He lectures as a visiting professor for theology of spirituality at the Theological University of Chur. Together with his wife, he also works as a retreat leader at Lassalle-Haus in Chur and at the St. Peter Spiritual Centre.