Institutional, Nurses’ and Patients’ Spiritual Imaginaries Compared

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Fieldwork in Religion Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI:10.1558/firn.25878

Matteo Di Placido, S. Palmisano, F. Timmins

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Abstract

In this article we seek to compare institutional, professional (largely nurses’) and patients’ perspectives on spirituality with the aim of contributing to two different, albeit potentially overlapping, strands of research, namely, the study of the governance of religious diversity and the inclusion of spiritual interventions in hospital settings, using data collected in the research project RESPIRO (breath) (2019–2022). Importantly, in this article we rely on the toolkit of the sociological trade to explore what we can learn about religion and spirituality by studying hospitals, building on the working hypothesis that the practical and discursive universe of ‘health’ and ‘salvation’, the two most valued symbolic resources of the medical and the religious/spiritual fields respectively, are inherently interrelated. In so doing, we reconstruct the “spiritual imaginaries” surrounding institutional, nurses’ and patients’ perspectives on spirituality in hospital, a previously unexplored subject. These three spiritual imaginaries are the expression of hospital management’s, nurses’ and patients’ respective positioning in the broader field of religion and spirituality in healthcare; that is, they voice different instances of what is considered the legitimate representation of religion and spirituality within healthcare institutions and care practices.

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机构、护士和病人精神想象的比较

在本文中，我们试图比较机构、专业人员(主要是护士)和患者对灵性的看法，目的是为两种不同的(尽管可能重叠)研究领域做出贡献，即研究宗教多样性的治理和医院环境中精神干预的纳入，使用研究项目呼吸器(2019-2022)收集的数据。重要的是，在本文中，我们依靠社会学贸易的工具包来探索我们可以通过研究医院来了解宗教和灵性，建立在“健康”和“拯救”的实践和话语宇宙的工作假设之上，这两个分别是医学和宗教/精神领域最宝贵的象征性资源，内在地相互关联。在这样做的过程中，我们重建了围绕机构、护士和患者对医院灵性的看法的“精神想象”，这是一个以前未被探索的主题。这三种精神意象表达了医院管理者、护士和患者在更广阔的医疗宗教和精神领域中各自的定位;也就是说，他们在医疗机构和护理实践中表达了被认为是宗教和精神的合法代表的不同实例。

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期刊介绍： Fieldwork in Religion (FIR) is a peer reviewed, interdisciplinary journal seeking engagement between scholars carrying out empirical research in religion. It will consider articles from established scholars and research students. The purpose of Fieldwork in Religion is to promote critical investigation into all aspects of the empirical study of contemporary religion. The journal is interdisciplinary in that it is not limited to the fields of anthropology and ethnography. Fieldwork in Religion seeks to promote empirical study of religion in all disciplines: religious studies, anthropology, ethnography, sociology, psychology, folklore, or cultural studies. A further important aim of Fieldwork in Religion is to encourage the discussion of methodology in fieldwork either through discrete articles on issues of methodology or by publishing fieldwork case studies that include methodological challenges and the impact of methodology on the results of empirical research.