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01-06-2018 | Original Paper

Spiritist Hospital Chaplaincy in Brazil: 5 Years of Documented Experience

Authors: Alexandre Anefalos, Wilkens Aurélio Buarque e Silva, Renan Mercuri Pinto, Renée Danckwardt Ferrari, Aparecida de Fátima Boni, Cleide Borges Duarte, Rodrigo Ribas dos Reis

Published in: Journal of Religion and Health | Issue 3/2018

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Spiritist Hospital Chaplaincy in Brazil has been growing significantly in recent years, with the implementation of new services through the work of Spiritist Medical Associations (SMAs) in different regions of the country. This article describes the importance of historical interconnections from the advent of spiritism in the world and its introduction in Brazil to the emergence of Spiritist Hospital Chaplaincy in our country and presents the documented experience over 5 years of spiritist chaplain care, in the period from 2012 to 2016, guided by the SMA of Piracicaba at the Unimed Hospital of Piracicaba (São Paulo). We documented 41,914 visits to 13,983 inpatients and an analysis of these records allowed us to reflect on the importance of this service and confirm its expansion and acceptance by different contemporary religious beliefs.

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Title: Spiritist Hospital Chaplaincy in Brazil: 5 Years of Documented Experience
Authors: Alexandre Anefalos
Wilkens Aurélio Buarque e Silva
Renan Mercuri Pinto
Renée Danckwardt Ferrari
Aparecida de Fátima Boni
Cleide Borges Duarte
Rodrigo Ribas dos Reis
Publication date: 01-06-2018
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Journal of Religion and Health / Issue 3/2018
Print ISSN: 0022-4197
Electronic ISSN: 1573-6571
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-017-0527-5

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