The Soul Online
eBook - ePub

The Soul Online

Bereavement, Social Media, and Competent Care

  1. 140 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Soul Online

Bereavement, Social Media, and Competent Care

About this book

Pandemics, conflicts, and crises have increased suffering, death, and loss worldwide. The growing phenomenon of online interactions by the bereaved with the online presence of their deceased loved ones has recently come to the attention of caring professionals. Many questions emerge. How do we understand and respond to digital memorialization? What do we make of digital identities and continuing bonds? How can we engage with digital bereavement communities? What is the future of digital death and bereavement rituals and practices? How have forms of technospirituality and cybergnosticism emerged? How do counselors and carers respond to advances in the digital afterlife? Graham Joseph Hill and Desiree Geldenhuys examine existing therapeutic responses to death and bereavement practices and evaluate the efficacy in meeting the needs of mourners in a digital context. Geldenhuys and Hill explore the rising interest in spirituality and the phenomenon of technospirituality, including interest in the afterlife. The authors outline new death and bereavement practices in the digital public sphere. Hill and Geldenhuys offer ways that therapeutic and care practitioners can meet these needs. Finally, the authors develop new proposals for counseling, pastoral, and spiritual carers to help them address the needs of the bereaved.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Introduction
  3. Chapter 1: Outlining the Emerging Phenomenon
  4. Chapter 2: Comparing Traditional Caucasian Euro-American and Digital Bereavement Practices
  5. Chapter 3: Bereavement, Embodiment, and Cybergnosticism
  6. Chapter 4: Bereavement, Embodiment, and Cybergnosticism
  7. Chapter 5: Evaluating Therapeutic Responses to Bereavement Practices in the Digital Age
  8. Chapter 6: Constructing New Bereavement Practices in the Digital Age
  9. Chapter 7: Proposals for Bereavement Counseling and Pastoral and Spiritual Care in a Digital Age
  10. Chapter 8: Recommendations for Further Research and Study
  11. Chapter 9: Competent Care of the Soul Online
  12. Bibliography
  13. About the Authors