Spiritual Ends

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org . What role does religion play at the end of life in Japan?  Spiritual Ends  draws on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with hospice patients, chaplains, and medical workers to provide an intimate portrayal of how spiritual care is provided to the dying in Japan. Timothy O. Benedict uses both local and cross-cultural perspectives to show how hospice caregivers in Japan are appropriating and