Leads: Sitna Quiroz (Theology and Religion), Arya Thampuran (English Studies), Adam Powell (Theology and Religion), Loretta Lou (Anthropology) and Fran Cettl (DCAD)
What does it mean to be well and healthy in a time of global ecological, economic, and social crises? And what role does spirituality play in shaping how we understand and practice health and well-being?
Our research in this strand engages critically with contemporary understandings of spirituality and its links with health and well-being across different religious traditions and historical contexts. It examines emerging and existing practices that turn towards the ‘spiritual’, including those drawing on non-Western and Indigenous traditions, to ask how and whether they challenge dominant health paradigms. It also questions and unsettles assumptions that health is a personal responsibility to restore productivity within a capitalist system.
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