Problems of religious understanding observed among medical care practitioners

NARA Yukikazu

doi:10.20593/jabedit.7.1_109

In Japan people are engaged in the search for terminal care that specifically addresses the current situation in this country, but medical care practitioners seem hardly at all disposed to seek cooperation from people of religion. At the root of this situation we find a narrow conception of religion that attempts to separate from quite ordinary Japanese people what is broadly seen as"religion"in present-day society, and apply special significance to it. As a matter of fact, there are not a few medical care practitioners who understand religion to mean having"a certain belief, "point out the tenuous connection between religion and the Japanese, and evince doubts about collaboration with religion. But since ancient times the Japanese have had a looser relationship with religion, in which people combine a variety of elements from certain religions as the sustenance in their everyday lives instead of believing in a certain religion. The view of religion needed in Japan's terminal care should presume this tenuous relationship between the Japanese and religion, and assume a broad-based form that can take into consideration the religious sense of the Japanese, which comprises elements compounded from various religions, instead of a narrow view of religion that suits only a mere handful of people.

Problems of religious understanding observed among medical care practitioners

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