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Record Nr.

UNINA9911015635103321

Autore

Ballano Vivencio

Titolo

Commodified Health Care and Lay Catholic Social Spirituality : A Sociotheological-Synodal Approach / / by Vivencio Ballano

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2025

ISBN

9789819659739

9789819659722

Edizione

[1st ed. 2025.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 pages)

Disciplina

282

Soggetti

Catholic Church

Christianity and the social sciences

Christian sociology

Religion and sociology

Monotheism

Public health

Social medicine

Catholicism

Social Scientific Studies of Christianity

Sociology of Religion

Monotheistic Religions

Public Health

Health, Medicine and Society

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Commodified Health Care, Access of the Poor, and the State: Establishing the Sociological Context -- Catholic Social Spirituality, Structural Sin, and Commodified Health Care: A Theological-Sociological Analysis -- Establishing a Sociological-Synodal Catholic Social Spirituality for Lay Health Practitioners -- Diffused Religion, Health Care Reforms, Civil Society, and Catholic Social Spirituality -- Participation in Civil Society’s Health Care Reforms and Catholic Social Spirituality -- Commodified Health Care and Catholic Social Spirituality in the Workplace -- Spirituality of Social



Transformation and Christian Discernment for Health Care Practitioners -- Angels and Demons in Health Care Practice” and the Ignatian “Agere Contra.

Sommario/riassunto

This book establishes a lay social spirituality for health care practitioners that pursues the Catholic Church’s social teachings on the preferential option for the poor, structural sin, and health care reform to address today’s commodification of the health care system where maximizing profit and patient’s capacity to pay become the primary consideration. Applying a sociotheological approach that combines the perspectives of modern sociology, Catholic social doctrines, and Pope Francis's inductive synodal theology, as well as drawing from secondary literature, media reports, and church documents, it argues for the necessity of a holistic, interdisciplinary, and synodal lay Catholic social spirituality that is informed by Pope Francis’s synodality. Presenting sociological research for health care practitioners to uphold options for the poor in public health, it envisions a lay spirituality that participates in civil society’s health care reform agenda at the macro level, and practices Christian and Ignatian discernment at the micro level, as its main behavioral components. This book appeals to Christian health care actors, entrepreneurs, and spiritual directors as well as scholars and students in sociology, religion, moral theology, bioethics, and spirituality.