Graduation Year
2010
Document Type
Thesis
Degree
M.A.
Degree Granting Department
Religious Studies
Major Professor
Darrell J. Fasching, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Carolyn Ellis, Ph.D.
Committee Member
David Schenck, Ph.D.
Keywords
Ethics, Illness, Spirituality, Relationality, Religion
Abstract
The person experiencing chronic or protracted illness is confronted with a complex array of physical, emotional and spiritual trials. This thesis explores how chronic illness can be viewed through the lens of the shamanic experience of dismemberment and re-memberment and shows how clinical, narrative, and relational models on their own are insufficient to speak meaningfully to illness experiences, but the integration of aspects of each of these models when coupled with shamanic initiation experience creates an innovative model for patients and those with whom they are in relationship.
Scholar Commons Citation
Klein, Ellen W., "Shamanism, Spiritual Transformation and the Ethical Obligations of the Dying Person: A Narrative Approach" (2010). USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/3538
