Prayer as Transgression?: The Social Relations of Prayer in Healthcare Settings (Volume 9) (Advancing Studies in Religion Series)

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 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 in Vancouver and London, Prayer as Transgression? reveals how prayer occurs in hospitals, long-term care facilities, and community-based clinics in a variety of forms and circumstances. Prayer occurs quietly on the edges of day-to-day healthcare provision and in designated sacred spaces. Some requests for prayer, however, interrupt and transgress the clinical machinery of a hospital, such as when a patient asks for prayer from the chaplain while the operating room waits. With contributions by researchers, healthcare practitioners, and chaplains, the authors consider how prayer transgresses the clinical priorities that mark healthcare, opening up ways to think differently about institutional norms and social structures. They show how prayer highlights trends of secularization and sacralization in healthcare settings. They also consider the ambivalences about prayer arising from staff and patients' varied views on religion and spirituality, and their associated ethical concerns amidst clinical and workload demands. A window onto religion in the public sphere, Prayer as Transgression? tells much about how people live well together, even in the face of personal crises and fragilities, suffering, diversity, and social change.

Religion & Spirituality

Brown, Rachel

Reimer-Kirkham, Sheryl

Sharma, Sonya

Calestani, Melania

Worship & Devotion

McGill-Queen's University Press

The Weaving, Spinning, and Dyeing Book

Instructions for more than fifty projects are presented together with information on topics including color and design, dyes, spinning wheels, finishing techniques, and weaving methods, equipment, and tools

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Random House, Inc.

This big, beautiful book with 435 illustrations is the clearest and most comprehensive ever published on the subject--explains everything the expert or beginner needs to know on how to weave, spin, and dye.

KNOPF

The Early Flute: A Practical Guide (Cambridge Handbooks to the Historical Performance of Music)

This handbook for flautists addresses all who wish to consider the issues raised when performing music of the past, and experiment with them on old or new instruments. Its aim is to provide an authoritative and practical guide with evidence drawn from a variety of primary sources directly and indirectly associated with the flute. The author provides sound advice on instruments and their care, historical techniques, stylistic issues and historically informed interpretation, with examples drawn from a wide range of case studies, including Bach, Handel, Mozart and Brahms.

Arts & Photography

Music

Cambridge University Press

Trauma, Survival and Resilience in War Zones (Explorations in Mental Health)

This book, based upon a series of psychological research studies, examines Sierra Leone as a case study of a constructivist and narrative perspective on psychological responses to warfare, telling the stories of a range of survivors of the civil war. The authors explore previous research on psychological responses to warfare while providing background information on the Sierra Leone civil war and its context. Chapters consider particular groups of survivors, including former child soldiers, as well as amputee footballers, mental health service users and providers, and refugees. Implications of the themes emerging from this research are considered with respect to how new understandings can inform current models of trauma and work with its survivors. Amongst the issues concerned will be post-traumatic stress and post-traumatic growth; resilience; mental health service provision; perpetration of atrocities; and forgiveness. The book also provides a critical consideration of the appropriateness of the use of Western concepts and methods in an African context. Drawing upon psychological theory and rich narrative research, Trauma, Survival and Resilience in War Zones will appeal to researchers and academics in the field of clinical psychology, as well as those studying post-war conflict zones.

Trauma, Survival and Resilience in War Zones: The psychological impact of war in Sierra Leone and beyond (Explorations in Mental Health)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

WINTER, David

Goins, Stephanie

Mason, Clare

Mental Health

Routledge

Marlow is an ancient Thames crossing point, a position symbolised by its elegant suspension bridge. Timber, wheat and malt were the main cargoes sent down river to London in the days when Marlow merchants built up contacts with trading houses in the capital, apprenticed their sons to London tradesmen, and forged commercial links. Though never a busy market town, it had a market day and two annual fairs. Due to wheat and barley growing, the local maltsters prospered and Wethered's brewery become the largest employer in the town.

Marlow A Pictorial History

History

Hunt, Julian

Europe

Phillimore Co Ltd

From the author: 
"Sixteen photographs of summer and winter solstice periods in County Mayo and Connemara. Foreword by Mary Oliver. Self-published.\n'Here are both the rough and exquisite of Ireland's creation – the repose of rock, the vivacity of wind and mist, the bravado of heath moss and delicate cotton flowers in the vast Irish fields....To see such wildness balanced, as it must be at winter solstice and summer solstice, is Rachel Brown's purpose and achievement.' 
—from the Foreword by Mary Oliver\n16 duotone photographs\nFrench translation by Muriel Adrien available as insert."

Solstice

Moon Poon Press

Healers - The Deeper Impact of Pet Therapy tells the story of how a big red dog and his kind-hearted person ventured into the world of pet therapy together. What started in 2005 with a handful of teams (volunteers and their own pets) visiting a handful of sites, grew into an award-winning nonprofit organization with more than 650 trained and certified teams in 24 specialized programs, providing one-on-one visits at 200 sites throughout a four-state region. Each chapter profiles a PAWS for People program and showcases a team and, more importantly, describes the simple but powerful healing effect of pet therapy on everyone involved. Roger, a golden retriever who flunked out of seeing eye dog school, is the personification of love and acceptance as he sits with a retired priest in a nursing home. Mr. Gibbs, a rescued puggle, visits those struggling with addictions and often adds comic relief to intense group therapy sessions when he falls asleep and begins to snore. Edward, a former classroom bunny, has a new home with Megan, who survived a mass shooting and came away with the desire to give back to her community.Beautiful color photographs depict the diversity of the volunteers&#8213;who hail from all walks of life&#8213;and their gentle, affectionate pets, who have their own charming (or sometimes harrowing) backstories. Timber, an English Labrador, was a wedding gift and is now offering pet therapy to tourists as a mascot for a water taxi company in Baltimore. Sadie, a Malinois who was rescued out of the war rubble in Syria, is now helping children with autism. Animal lovers will enjoy reading about the joy, comfort, and healing that these teams bring to young and old and everyone in between, as well as learning about how pet therapy is a deeply rewarding activity for the volunteers and their pets.

Healers: The deeper impact of pet therapy

Robinson, Lynne

Alternative Medicine

Independently published

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