Reconceptualizing hospital chaplaincy in an age of "spirituality"
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In response to a changing cultural landscape, especially the movement away from traditional religion and the emerging practice of diverse members of health care teams addressing existential or spiritual pain as a quasi-medical problem, hospital chaplaincy is (re)conceptualized in terms of two concepts intelligible and meaningful to people within and outside religious traditions: narrative and witness. The project examines hospital chaplaincy in an age of spirituality, and to elaborate on the notions of narrative and witness, reviews the Book of Job; the Holocaust narratives of Elie Wiesel and Judith Sherman; the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas and the liberation theology of Gustavo GutiƩrrez, as well as selected case studies.