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Keynote 4 : spirituality and health (2012)
Journal Article
Cook, C. (2012). Keynote 4 : spirituality and health. Journal for the Study of Spirituality, 2(2), 150-162. https://doi.org/10.1179/jss.2.2.g7w3647127205j85

In a fragmented world, which lacks coherent and integrated ways of understanding spirituality and health, there is nonetheless a growing research evidence base which supports the importance of spirituality and religion as variables of interest in the... Read More about Keynote 4 : spirituality and health.

From Obligation to Consumption in Two-and-a-half Hours: A Visual Exploration of the Sacred with Young Polish Migrants. (2012)
Journal Article
Dunlop, S., & Ward, P. (2012). From Obligation to Consumption in Two-and-a-half Hours: A Visual Exploration of the Sacred with Young Polish Migrants. Journal of Contemporary Religion, 27(13), 433-451. https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2012.722037

This article reports the findings of a visual ethnographic case study that explored the shifting nature of religious belief in contemporary Britain due to the migration of young Polish people. The focus on studying what is ‘sacred’ to Polish migrants... Read More about From Obligation to Consumption in Two-and-a-half Hours: A Visual Exploration of the Sacred with Young Polish Migrants..

Religion, Spirituality, and Mental Health: Current Controversies and Future Directions (2012)
Journal Article
Dein, S., Cook, C., & Koenig, H. (2012). Religion, Spirituality, and Mental Health: Current Controversies and Future Directions. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 200(10), 852-855. https://doi.org/10.1097/nmd.0b013e31826b6dle

Although studies examining religion, spirituality, and mental health generally indicate positive associations, there is a need for more sophisticated methodology, greater discrimination between different cultures and traditions, more focus on situate... Read More about Religion, Spirituality, and Mental Health: Current Controversies and Future Directions.

Psychiatry in scripture: sacred texts and psychopathology (2012)
Journal Article
Cook, C. (2012). Psychiatry in scripture: sacred texts and psychopathology. The psychiatrist, 36(6), 225-229. https://doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.111.036418

The engagement of psychiatry with religion is increasingly important for better understanding of the ways in which religious people find resources to cope with mental disorder. An example of how a more critical and constructive engagement might be ac... Read More about Psychiatry in scripture: sacred texts and psychopathology.

A Metaphysical Kant: A Theological Lingua Franca? (2012)
Journal Article
Insole, C. J. (2012). A Metaphysical Kant: A Theological Lingua Franca?. Studies in Christian Ethics, 25(2), 206-214. https://doi.org/10.1177/0953946811435385

I track a strand of intellectualist theology, running from Kant’s pre-critical into his critical work, whereby the divine will is constrained in its creative activity by the divine understanding. I suggest that Kant’s intellectualist theology continu... Read More about A Metaphysical Kant: A Theological Lingua Franca?.

Pathway to accommodate patients' spiritual needs (2012)
Journal Article
Cook, C., Breckon, J., Jay, C., Renwick, L., & Walker, P. (2012). Pathway to accommodate patients' spiritual needs. Nursing Management, 19(2), 33-37. https://doi.org/10.7748/nm2012.05.19.2.33.c9059

Many service users would like their spiritual needs to be taken into account during treatment and doing so has been shown to have positive benefits. However, this rarely happens in practice. Barriers to healthcare professionals providing spiritual ca... Read More about Pathway to accommodate patients' spiritual needs.

Self-belief: holistic psychiatry in a secular age. Commentary on... Holistic Psychiatry without the whole self (2012)
Journal Article
Cook, C. (2012). Self-belief: holistic psychiatry in a secular age. Commentary on... Holistic Psychiatry without the whole self. The psychiatrist, 36(3), 101-103. https://doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.111.037929

Charles Taylor provides important philosophical accounts of what it means to be a ‘self’ in a secular age. Psychiatry has not traditionally concerned itself with other than limited accounts of the concept of the self but Taylor’s work sheds a reveali... Read More about Self-belief: holistic psychiatry in a secular age. Commentary on... Holistic Psychiatry without the whole self.

'You Say that I Am a King' (John 18.37) (2012)
Journal Article
Heath, J. (2012). 'You Say that I Am a King' (John 18.37). Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 34(3), 232-253. https://doi.org/10.1177/0142064x11435039

Nestle-Aland punctuate Jn 18.37 σὺ λέγεις ὅτι βασιλεύς εἰμι. The present article argues for voicing the text rather with the pause one word later: σὺ λέγεις ὅτι βασιλεύς εἰμι ἐγώ. This voicing resonates with the Johannine ἐγώ εἰμι sayings, which, tog... Read More about 'You Say that I Am a King' (John 18.37).

"Where Does the Trinity Appear?" Augustine’s Apologetics and "Philosophical" Readings of the De Trinitate (2012)
Journal Article
Ayres, L. (2012). "Where Does the Trinity Appear?" Augustine’s Apologetics and "Philosophical" Readings of the De Trinitate. Augustinian Studies, 43(1/2), 109-126. https://doi.org/10.5840/augstudies2013431/211

One persistent strand of commentary treats Augustine’s de trinitate (trin.) as most significantly an apologetic intended to demonstrate Christianity’s completion of and superiority to the classical philosophical tradition.1 Scholars in this tradition... Read More about "Where Does the Trinity Appear?" Augustine’s Apologetics and "Philosophical" Readings of the De Trinitate.