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The editors of "Making Sense of Death: Spiritual, Pastoral, and Personal Aspects of Death, Dying and Bereavement" provide stimulating discussions as they ponder the meaning of life and death.This anthology explores the process of meaning-making in the face of death and the roles of religion and spirituality at times of loss; the profound and devastating experience of loss in the death of a spouse or a child; a psychological model of spirituality; the dimensions of spirituality; humor in client-caregiver relationships; the worldview of modernity in contrast to postmodern assumptions; the Buddhist perspective of death, dying, and pastoral care; meaning-making in the virtual reality of cyberspace; individualism and death; and the historical context of Native Americans, the concept of disenfranchised grief, and its detailed application to the Native American experience.It also explores: a qualitative survey on the impact of the shooting deaths of students in Colorado; a team approach with physicians, nursing, social services, and pastoral care; a study of health care professionals, comparing clergy with other health professionals; marginality in spiritual and pastoral care for the dying; a qualitative research study of registered nurses in the northeast United States; and loss and growth in the seasons of life.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction Herman H. van der Kloot Meijburg and Robert A. Bendiksen
SECTION I Facing the Death of a Loved One
CHAPTER 1 The Role of Spiritual Experience in Adapting to Bereavement Louis A. Gamino, Larry W. Easterling, and Kenneth W. Sewell
CHAPTER 2 The Death of a Spouse: A Spiritual and Psychological Crisis Susan J. Zonnebelt-Smeenge and Robert C. DeVries
CHAPTER 3 For Those Who Stand and Wait Kent Koppelman
SECTION II Meaning-Making in the Face of Death
CHAPTER 4 A Taste of Heaven Here on Earth: For the Dying and for the Accompanier Rabbi Daniel A. Roberts
CHAPTER 5 Death, Humor, and Spirituality: Strange Bedfellows? Ruth Dean
CHAPTER 6 Death and the Postmodern Self: Individualism, Religion, and the Transformation of the Modern Self Raymond L. M. Lee
CHAPTER 7 The Healing Touch of Awareness: A Buddhist Perspective on Death, Dying, and Pastoral Care Arthur O. Ledoux
SECTION III Extraordinary Death and Loss
CHAPTER 8 Cyber Cemeteries and Virtual Memorials: Virtual Living Monuments as On-line Outlets for Real Life Mourning and a Celebration of Life Hermann Gruenwald and Le Gruenwald
CHAPTER 9 Violence is the Dark Side of Spirituality John D. Morgan
CHAPTER 10 Native American Grief and Loss: Conceptualizations of Disenfranchised Grief and Historical Trauma at Individual and Community Levels Steven R. Byers, Theresa T. Erdkamp, and Lisa Byers
CHAPTER 11 In the Aftermath of Columbine: Tragedy as Opportunity for Transformation Kevin Ann Oltjenbruns, Steven R. Byers, and Suzanne Tochterman
SECTION IV Professional Caregivers and Spirituality
CHAPTER 12 When a Patient Dies: Meeting Spiritual Needs of the Bereaved in a Health Care Setting Fran Rybarik and Diane Midland
CHAPTER 13 An Exploratory Study of the Spirituality of Clergy as Compared with Health Care Professionals David W. Adams and Rick Csiernik
CHAPTER 14 Living, Dying, and Grieving in the Margins Rev. Richard B. Gilbert
SECTION V Conclusion
CHAPTER 15 Spirituality in Nursing: Being in a Liminal Space Cheryl Laskowski
CHAPTER 16 Spirituality and Loss Gerry R. Cox
Contributors
Index
