Geestelijke verzorging als antropologisch laboratorium van postseculier Nederland

Auteurs

  • Ernst van den Hemel Meertens Instituut

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54195/RS.12111

Samenvatting

This introduction to the special issue argues that the field of spiritual care is an indispensible support for people with increasingly pluriform spiritual needs. What is more, because of the continuous interaction between theory and practice, spiritual care can provide input and inspiration for academics and policymakers. As the papers in this special issue show, spiritual care works ‘on the ground’ with the many forms and meanings religion and spirituality take. Spiritual care, based on individuals’ identification and needs, can function as an anthropological laboratory, in which everyday experience is used as the starting point for thinking about the role of religion and spirituality instead of top-down categories and institutions. The experience of spiritual caregivers and the expertise collected in this special issue, provides a solution for a societal, academic and policy stalemate: how to engage with a pluriform spiritual society without depending too much on either the shapes of the (pillarized) past or resorting to secular indifference.

Biografie auteur

  • Ernst van den Hemel, Meertens Instituut

    Ernst van den Hemel is als postdoctoraal onderzoeker werkzaam aan het Meertens Instituut binnen het project: HERILIGION (The heritagization of religion and the sacralization of heritage in contemporary Europe).

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Gepubliceerd

01-10-2017

Citeerhulp

Geestelijke verzorging als antropologisch laboratorium van postseculier Nederland. (2017). Religie & Samenleving, 12(2/3), 91-95. https://doi.org/10.54195/RS.12111