Lecture 11-Religion

Question 1

Spirituality

• Definition?
• 2 types?

Answer 1

• One’s sense of connection to something greater than self
• No scripture, rules, or organizations
• 2 types-theistic and non-theistic

Question 2

Spirituality-theistic?

Answer 2

Subjective experience of God through prayer, meditation, contemplation, and mysticism

Question 3

Spirituality-Non-theistic (secular)?

Answer 3

Finds meaning in nature, the universe, humankind

Question 4

Religion and spirituality in medicine

-Practitioners need to know?

Answer 4

• What do I believe in and practice? Why?
• What is my patient’s faith tradition?
• What is his/her faith to the tradition-wholehearted, half-hearted, rejecting, non-existent (in name only)?

Question 5

Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services
-strongly?

Answer 5

-Strongly deontological-learn the rules and follow them

Question 6

Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services
-Purposes?

Answer 6

• To reaffirm the ethical standards of behavior in healthcare that flow from the church’s teaching about dignity of the human person
• To provide authoritative guidance on certain moral issues that face catholic healthcare today

Question 7

Describe the commonalities and differences of religion and spirituality as they are encountered in healthcare
-Religion

Answer 7

A set of beliefs and practices about the transcendent, usually God, around which a group of people organize and commit themselves