Anxious Experts: Disaster Response and Spiritual Care from 9/11 to the Climate Crisis Moses Joshua
Anxious Experts: Disaster Response and Spiritual Care from 9/11 to the Climate Crisis Moses Joshua In this age of near-perpetual disaster, from the Coronavirus epidemic and mass incarceration to…
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Anxious Experts: Disaster Response and Spiritual Care from 9/11 to the Climate Crisis Moses Joshua
In this age of near-perpetual disaster, from the Coronavirus epidemic and mass incarceration to hurricanes and earthquakes, spiritual care has become an essential component of the disaster-response toolkit. What emerges are approaches to trauma that encompass everything from meditation and acupuncture to trauma therapy and restorative justice. In Experts in the Age of Anxiety, Joshua Moses chronicles the rise of disaster-related spiritual expertise in the years following the attacks of 9/11.
In this way, the ascent of spiritual expertise in response to post-9/11 disasters represents an extension of historical tensions between secular health practice and proponents of religious and spiritual care.The book also provides a lens through which to understand the historical dimensions of disaster-related trauma, its treatment, and the ways that therapeutic and spiritual