Abstract:This contribution offers an exploration of spiritual care as a professional discipline that profiled itself during the eighties of last century in the Netherlands as a typical provision that deals with vital questions, issues of meaning and existential problems of patients and clients from the perspective of their religion or philosophy of life. In settings of defence, justice and healthcare, provisions for spiritual care are increasingly confronted with the consequences of declining church attendance and secu… Show more
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