Spiritual Ends Religion and the Heart of Dying in Japan

What role does religion play at the end of life in Japan? Spiritual Ends draws on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews to provide an intimate portrayal of how spiritual care is provided to the dying in Japan. Timothy O. Benedict shows how hospice caregivers in Japan are appropriating and reinterpre...

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Main Author: Benedict, Timothy O. (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: University of California Press 2023
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