The Dissolution of Religion in Spiritual Health Assessment Models: Religion versus Spirituality and the Need for Future Reform
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Hale, Justin
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Religious Studies
- Abstract
- When most people think about spirituality and religion, they consider them to be often one and the same, as if spirituality is the core of religion. Many see them as inseparable entities, needing one another to exist. Some say that spirituality is the driving force of religion. However, some believe that spirituality is much more secular and individualistic, focusing more on the personal experience with the transcendent. The question that I am addressing in this thesis is how this divergence between religion and spirituality affects healthcare. As a reader, you may believe that this separation has no relation to medicine or healthcare as we know it. In this thesis, I will provide a brief historical background of this divergence with medicine, compare and contrast spirituality and religion’s medical impacts, and describe modern implications and my concerns with this division’s impact on our healthcare’s future. I argue that not prioritizing both religion and spirituality equally in models to assess spiritual health ultimately decreases the quality of care provided to patients whose spirituality comes from communal religion and that an integrated, inter-professional model is needed in order to most accurately assess overall patient health.
- Date of publication
- spring 2015
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- Funding: None
- Advisor
- Styers, Randall
- Degree
- Bachelor of Arts
- Honors level
- Honors
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Extent
- 58
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