In the Land of Forgetfulness: Meditations on Dementia Care as Spiritual Formation - Hardcover

Ewing, Wayne A

Hardcover

ISBN 13: 9798385222636

Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2024

Synopsis

In the Land of Forgetfulness meditatively reflects on dementia caregiving territory previously unexplored: the uncanny parallel of the language used to describe dementia from the outside looking in with the language used by contemplatives and mystics to describe their spiritual formation from the inside looking outward. The quiet passages are written in the interests of providing personal and professional dementia caregivers both solace and resource for the arduous, exhausting, and wearying journey with the Beloved into and through the land of forgetfulness. The spiritually curious will also find the meditations to be provocative and sustaining. The book is a companion volume to the author's previous multi-award-winning collection of reflections, Tears in God's Bottle.

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About the Author

Wayne A. Ewing, Ph.D. also authored the multi-award winning TEARS IN GOD'S BOTTLE: Reflections on Alzheimer's Caregiving. He served as the 24/7 caregiver for his spouse, the late Ann Margaret Wentz Ewing, Ph.D. during her five year journey into and through the land of forgetfulness. A retired Episcopal priest and academic, he currently is a staff writer for the Wet Mountain Tribune, community weekly newspaper serving Custer County, Colorado. He has taught at universities and seminaries both here and abroad, and as a pastoral counselor addressed healing with domestic violence perpetrators and the severely mentally ill. A member of the Fellowship of St John, he is also a scholar member of the Common Ground Research Network, and will be presenting at the 15th International Conference on Religion and Spirituality at Sapienza University, Rome, in July, 2025.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798385222636
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 146