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Welcome to our series, “Excellent Excerpts,” where we share selections from recently or soon-to-be published books we think you should check out! In this post we are featuring Nursing the Spirit: Care, Public Life, and the Dignity of Vulnerable Strangers by Don Grant, published May 2023 with Columbia University Press. You can learn more about Don in our interview series here. Summary Don Grant investigates the subtle ways that nurses at an academic medical center incorporate spiritualit...| sacredmattersmagazine.com
Welcome to our series, “Excellent Excerpts,” where we share selections from recently or soon-to-be published books we think you should check out! In this post we are featuring The Gut: A Black Atlantic Alimentary Tract by Elizabeth Perez, published with Cambridge University Press. Book Synopsis: If the head is religion, the gut is magic. Taking up this provocation, The Gut delves into the digestive system within transnational Afro-Diasporic religions such as Haitian Vodou, Brazilian Can...| sacredmattersmagazine.com
Welcome to our series, “Excellent Excerpts,” where we share selections from recently or soon-to-be published books we think you should check out! In this post we are featuring Rebuilding Community: Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality by Shenila Khoja-Moolji, published July 2023 with Oxford University Press. From the Introduction [Atlanta, Georgia, 2019. The phone rings.] Farida, in Urdu: Hello, kaisay ho (How are you)? [Farida lis...| sacredmattersmagazine.com