Studying Religion
This is a thing that people do, often with ideas about divinities and in community.
What is religion?
What is Christian Science?
This type of Christianity promises material good and physical health due to prayer
What is the prosperity gospel?
This method of listening to people is an important part of how Egan is a chaplain.
What is storytelling?
This approach to health and healing involves "laying on of hands."
What is faith healing?
This is a way of talking about religion that tells people how to believe, practice.
What is the prescriptive approach?
This religion does not believe in blood transfusions
What is Jehovah's Witness?
Bowler realized that she was being affected by this teaching, by just being a person in the U.S.
What is prosperity gospel?
This kind of chaplain is a religious minority, but meets with all kinds of patients
What is a Buddhist chaplain?
Feeling this way tends to take people to faith healers
What is feeling desperate? Out of options?
This is a way of talking about religion that describes the phenomenon.
What is the descriptive approach to religion?
This is, according to happiness research, a predictor of long life and well-being.
What is community? What is strong relationships?
This religion buries their dead within 24 hours of death
What is Judaism
This space in hospitals can be malleable and change, based on the religious needs of the patient community.
What is a chapel?
We use this term to talk about practices that may or may not be religious, but connect people to something bigger than themselves.
What is spirituality?
It's a social phenomenon that is a part of everyone's life in the U.S.
What is religion? What is Christianity?
This religion marks the holy month of Ramadan with fasting
What is Islam
This type of religion teaches that physical suffering is valuable
What is Catholicism?
This person is on call for the spiritual needs of patients and staff at hospitals
What is a chaplain?
People often experience this as an all-encompassing thing that makes religion more meaningful
What is illness?
What is religion?
This religion does not diets that involve ritual practices
What is Sikhism?
This religious tradition focuses on being detached from desire (something Bechdel struggled with!)
What is (Zen) Buddhism?
This is the basis, historically, of hospitals in the US
What is Christianity?
This key idea in US government makes regulating faith healing complicated.
What is freedom of religion?