From selfcare to taking care of our common home: spirituality as an integral and transformative healthy lifestyle

Alex Villas Boas; Mary Rute Gomes Esperandio; Sílvia Caldeira; Fabiano Incerti

doi:10.3390/rel14091168

From selfcare to taking care of our common home: spirituality as an integral and transformative healthy lifestyle

Alex Villas Boas^*, Mary Rute Gomes Esperandio^*, Sílvia Caldeira^*, Fabiano Incerti^*

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Abstract

One of the great threats to health in the 21st century is the relationship between health and environmental issues, as there is an inevitable relationship between the planet’s degradation and health problems. In this sense, health is also seen as a problem of public order, and more precisely of political order, to the extent that such an environmental issue implies public health as a social value that affects the spaces of political decision making; moreover, to the extent that the environmental issue also intersects with the religious issue, namely with the 2030 Agenda in the 21st century. This article intends to think about how such a confluence occurs regarding religion, public health, and the environment, considering how spiritual care provided in the healthcare domain is related to care in the common home (Cf. CITER, Project «Common home and new ways of living interculturally: Public theology and ecology of culture in pandemic times»). In particular, this article intends to analyse such issues in Brazilian and Portuguese contexts.

Original language	English
Article number	1168
Number of pages	19
Journal	Religions
Volume	14
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14091168
Publication status	Published - 13 Sept 2023

Keywords

Spiritual care
Selfcare
Care for common home
Spirituality and health
Public theology

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From selfcare to taking care of our common home: spirituality as an integral and transformative healthy lifestyle

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