International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare: Volume 11 Issue 2

Negotiating belief in health and social care

Panagiotis Pentaris

Religion and belief in health and social care: the case for religious literacy

Adam Dinham

The purpose of this paper is to report on an action research programme in the UK to address this through the notion of religious literacy.

Religion, spirituality and social work: an international perspective

Beth R. Crisp

While there has been the emergence of a substantial body of scholarship on the place of religion and spirituality in social work, the predominant voices in this discourse have…

Religious literacy for responding to violence and abuse involves the capacity to go beyond stereotypes

Beth R. Crisp, Sarah Epstein, Rojan Afrouz, Ann Taket

There is an increasing recognition that health and social care professionals require the knowledge and skills to negotiate religious beliefs and cultures but as yet there is…

Religious aspects in psychiatry and psychotherapy

Silke Schwarz

The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of religion in psychiatry and psychotherapy and it introduces a context-oriented approach to religion.

The marginalization of religion in end of life care: signs of microaggression?

Panagiotis Pentaris

Service users very often interpret and respond to their experiences of death, dying and bereavement through a religious or spiritual lens. However, recent trends in religion and…

Transcendence/religion to immanence/nonreligion in assisted dying

Lori G. Beaman, Cory Steele

The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to the ways in which the Supreme Court of Canada has shifted away from transcendent/religious to nonreligious conceptualizations of…

Freedom of conscience: a benefit to health care worker and patient alike

Roger Kiska

The purpose of this paper is to determine the appropriate legal balance and framework whereby issues of health care, patient access and rights of conscience can be best…