Prayer as Transgression?: The Social Relations of Prayer in Healthcare Settings Volume 9

by Sonya Sharma, Melania Calestani, Rachel Brown, et al.

Healthcare settings are notoriously complex places where life and death co-exist, and where suffering is an everyday occurrence, giving rise to existential questions. The full range of society's diversity is reflected in the patients and staff. Increasing religious and ethnic plurality, alongside decades of secularizing trends, is bringing new attention to how religion and nonreligion are expressed in public spaces. Through critical ethnographic research...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0228001641
• ISBN13: 9780228001645
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 240 Pages