In this age of near-perpetual disaster, from the Coronavirus
epidemic and mass incarceration to hurricanes and earthquakes,
spiritual care has become an essential component of the
disaster-response toolkit. In Experts in the Age of Anxiety, Joshua
Moses chronicles the rise of disaster-related spiritual expertise
in the years following the attacks of 9/11. What emerges are
approaches to trauma that encompass everything from meditation and
acupuncture to trauma therapy and restorative justice. In this way,
the ascent of spiritual expertise in response to post-9/11
disasters represents an extension of historical tensions between
secular health practice and proponents of religious and spiritual
care. The book also provides a lens through which to understand the
historical dimensions of disaster-related trauma, its treatment,
and the ways that therapeutic and spiritual practices imply
politics. By studying the intersection of mental health and
spirituality in the context of disaster, we gain essential insight
into apocalyptic and dystopic beliefs that are prevalent today
throughout the United States-and beyond. We learn not only about
the role of particular forms of expertise in defining meaning but
also the consequences this concept of meaning may have for how we
imagine our relations to other humans and nonhumans, the climate
crisis-and ultimately the kind of future we might imagine. This
variety of therapeutic and spiritual practices, now deployed in the
face of disaster, will be tested as humanity faces growing threats
from the climate crisis and other cascading disasters. But it is
not at all clear whether the particular kinds of knowledge we have
managed to patch together will provide the resources we require to
instill the capacities to face the repercussions of future
disasters.
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