Religious maturity in the midst of death and dying.
Xolani Kacela
The American journal of hospice & palliative care 2004 DOI: 10.1177/104990910402100309 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Argues that healthy religious experience is defined by certain qualities of expression, and that pastoral caregivers can facilitate mature religious phenomenology in the face of death, as illustrated by two contrasting personal encounters. |
Abstract
Healthy religious experience is defined by certain qualities of expression. In an effort to explore the concept of mature religious phenomenology, this article includes descriptions of two encounters from personal pastoral experience. The first encounter shows how a person with an unhealthy religious experience faces death. The second encounter describes an expression of mature religious experience in the face of death and how a pastoral caregiver can facilitate its outcome. This is followed by a pastoral theological response.