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Wonder, Silence, and Human Flourishing: Toward a Rehumanization of
Health, Education, and Welfare approaches humanization and the
process of re-enchantment in a radical new way. For more than a
decade the call for rehumanization in education, care and welfare
has been heard and discussed primarily in critical thinking,
political theory, and sociological discourses. This critique is
mainly based on a social constructivist and naturalistic worldview
that keeps the discussion in an anthropocentric perspective. By
focusing on the phenomenology and ethics of wonder as an
ontological and even spiritual event, and by listening to the
silence that follows this contemplative wonder, the contributors
offer an existential, phenomenological, and hermeneutic way of
understanding humanization. Edited by Finn Thorbjorn Hansen,
Solveig Eide Botnen, and Carlo Leget, the book shows, from various
perspectives, that the force of wonder and the silence that follows
from it can nurture our ability to be receptive to and present in
human relations and in resonance with the meaning-giving life
phenomena that surround us.
Without an appropriate spiritual care model, it can be difficult to
discuss existential questions about death and dying with people who
are confronted with life-threatening or incurable diseases. This
book offers a simple framework for interpreting existential
questions with patients and helping them to cope in end-of-life
situations, with illustrative examples from practice. Building on
the medieval Ars moriendi tradition, the author introduces a
contemporary art of dying model. It shows how to discuss
existential questions in a post-Christian context, without
moralising death or telling people how they should feel. Written in
a straightforward manner, this is a helpful resource for chaplains
and clergy, and those with no formal spiritual training, including
counsellors, doctors, nurses, allied healthcare workers and other
professionals who come into contact with patients in hospitals and
hospices.
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