What is it about?
The natural disasters and a severe railways accident encouraged Japanese people to consider the potential of the psychological care for the survivors' recovery from griefs. Along with the development of the palliative care, the introduction of attentive listeners to the hospital institution is facilitated. This essay is the history of the process of the American Clinical Pastoral Education system to Japanese universities.
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Why is it important?
This paper shows how religion can be active in limited public spaces along with general secularizing tendency of Japan.
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I am a supervisor of the "spiritual caregiver" (chaplain) training program at the Sophia university, Tokyo. This paper can be said as a harvest of my participant observation to the program.
Ph.D Kenta Kasai
Center for Information on Religion
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This page is a summary of: Introducing Chaplaincy to Japanese Society, Journal of Religion in Japan, January 2016, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/22118349-00502009.
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