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Marking Short Lives

Constructing and Sharing Rituals Following Pregnancy Loss

by Ewan Kelly

  • Paperback
  • 302 pages
  • Publisher: Verlag Peter Lang
  • 15.2 x 22.6 x 1.9 cm

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This book explores theologically the practice of hospital chaplains seeking to meet the spiritual needs of parents bereaved by baby death in-utero. The lived experience of bereaved parents, gathered through a series of in-depth interviews, informs such an exploration. Parents describe the trauma of late miscarriage and stillbirth as still being shrouded by silence, myth and misunderstanding in contemporary society. Up-to-date theoretical understandings of grief are also re-examined in light of parents' stories of living with baby death. This book offers suggestions as to how the actual spiritual needs of parents may be met and their grief sensitively facilitated through the sharing of rituals co-constructed by parents and chaplain which seek to have theological integrity yet be relevant in our postomodern age. In our prevalent culture of caring, where increasingly ongoing professional and personal development are regarded as normative, recommendations are made which may aid reflection on current, or shape future, practice for chaplains, pastors, students and various healthcare professionals.
Marking Short Lives and Personhood and Presence
Personhood and PresenceMarking Short Lives

  • Author

    Ewan Kelly

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Verlag Peter Lang

  • Published

    January 2007

  • Weight

    446g

  • Page Count

    302

  • Dimensions

    15.2 x 22.6 x 1.9 cm

  • ISBN

    9783039107025

  • ISBN-10

    303910702X

  • Eden Code

    4073195

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