Paul Bramadat is Director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society and Associate Professor of Religious Studies and History at the University of Victoria. He is the author of The Church on the World's Turf: An Evangelical Christian Group at a Secular University. Harold Coward is Professor Emeritus of History and Founding Director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria. He is the author of The Perfectibility of Human Nature in Eastern and Western Thought, also published by SUNY Press. Kelli I. Stajduhar is Associate Professor at the School of Nursing and Centre on Aging at the University of Victoria. She is the coeditor (with Harold Coward) of Religious Understandings of a Good Death in Hospice Palliative Care, also published by SUNY Press.

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Paul Bramadat, Harold Coward, and Kelli I. Stajduhar

1. Hospice and the Politics of Spirituality
Kathleen Garces-Foley

2. Spiritual Care in Nursing: Following Patients' and Families' View of a Good Death
Anne Bruce and Kelli I. Stajduhar

3. Religion, Spirituality, Medical Education, and Hospice Palliative Care
Paul Bramadat and Joseph Kaufert

4. Research and Practice: Spiritual Perspectives of a Good Death within Evidence-Based Health Care
Shane Sinclair and Harvey Max Chochinov

5. Hospice Chaplains, Spirituality, and the Idea of a Good Death
W. Wilson Will III

Personal Perspectives

6. Tragedy and the Eternal Yea: A Personal Reflection on Atheism
Patrick Grant

7. Spirituality Unhinged
Elizabeth Causton

8. Final Reflections on Spirituality in Hospice Palliative Care
Paul Bramadat and Kelli I. Stajduhar

Notes on Contributors
Index