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| Glossary | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Focus | |
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| Terminology | |
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| Criteria of appreciation | |
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| Perspective | |
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| Structure | |
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| Understanding spirituality: how far can story go? | |
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| How stories create and disclose meaning | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The 'storied' self | |
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| A problem of limit | |
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| Symbol and metaphor: the tools of story making | |
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| Symbol | |
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| Metaphor | |
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| Spirituality and psychology: stories with differing limits | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Spirituality: a further look | |
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| 'Con-fusions' | |
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| Archetypes considered | |
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| Stories in the 'listening': collecting data | |
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| Participant observation | |
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| The interviews | |
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| A 'divesting' methodology | |
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| Sample profile | |
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| External influences | |
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| Gender bias? | |
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| Recruitment procedures | |
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| Motivational factors | |
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| Shift of focus | |
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| A story in the making: data analysis and interpretation | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Expanding possibilities | |
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| Spiritual concerns expressed in non-religious ways | |
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| Features of a 'language of spirit' | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Matrix of 'happenings' | |
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| Language of spirit: context | |
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| Language of spirit: literary form | |
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| Archaic language | |
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| Humour | |
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| Language of spirit: symbolic form | |
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| Permeating themes: hearing 'then' in 'now' | |
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| Symbolic meanings and motifs of spirit | |
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| Ritual | |
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| Silence | |
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| Silence as paradox | |
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| Resume | |
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| Participant profiles | |
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| Nine metaphors waiting to be recognized--how spirituality is mediated in the here and now | |
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| Patients' sources of meaning and sense of self | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Metaphors of temporality | |
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| Time: familiar friend in unfamiliar circumstances | |
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| Temporal 'distance' | |
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| Right times and wrong times | |
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| Regrets and mistakes: 're-membering' the past | |
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| Plural temporality | |
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| The infinite perspective: core values and the seer | |
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| Final comments | |
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| Marginality and liminality: metaphors of the edge or the way? | |
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| Metaphors of control | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Communication: autonomy and authenticity | |
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| Temporality: agency of control | |
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| Ultimate control | |
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| Metaphors of letting go | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Obstacles | |
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| Expression as realization | |
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| Archetypal hero | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Identity security and purpose | |
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| Potential snares | |
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| Approval: benefits and costs | |
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| Rebel or ally? | |
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| The scarred hero | |
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| Another view | |
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| Archetypal mother | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Protect and prepare | |
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| Rhythms of nature | |
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| Costs | |
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| The 'absent presence' | |
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| Creative activity: sacramental awareness | |
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| Archetypal stranger | |
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| Inherent tensions | |
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| Near but far | |
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| Waiting: source of ultimate tension | |
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| Self as stranger | |
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| 'Other people don't recognize me' | |
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| 'Treat me normally' | |
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| Estrangement as refuge | |
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| Temporal metaphor and making connections | |
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| Health/whole: inevitable synonym? | |
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| Stranger bearing gifts | |
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| Carla's bride | |
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| The case for a spiritual interpretation | |
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| Edwin's dilemma | |
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| The outsider | |
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| Nihilism or punishment? | |
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| Nihilism or gift? | |
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| Enlarging the picture: hearing the tacit | |
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| Coda | |
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| Recognizing life's 'surplus of meaning' | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Two challenges | |
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| Implications for spiritual care | |
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| Some inconclusive reflections | |
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| Review | |
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| Considerations of what and how | |
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| Return to personhood: return to theology | |
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| The 'spacious' listener | |
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| 'Attention': a potential vehicle for spiritual care | |
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| Prompts, questions, and possible developments | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |