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Call for Papers for the
International Review of Psychiatry
Special Issue for 2014
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Spirituality, culture and health in management
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Guest Editor
Claude-Hï¿œlï¿œne Mayer, Department of Industrial Psychology,
UNISA, Pretoria, South Africa
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Spirituality has become a popular topic in psychological, cultural, social and medical discourses. The importance of spirituality and consciousness and their implications for health and well-being have been explored and discussed at large. Strategic research initiatives have emerged to explore spirituality, health and healing, as well as spiritual practices and mental health. It has been documented that spirituality makes a significant contribution to psychological well-being, social connection and mental health, also in management and in work places. However, the cultural perspective has hardly been considered in these research studies.
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At the same time, many research studies have been published on the topic of culture. Some of them refer to the issue of culture and health, respectively culture and spirituality. However, they often use an essentialist definition of culture and remain on the level of discussion that describes and interprets concepts of health and well-being in connection with (etic) ethnic, cultural and/or racial classifications. In these terms, culture in health research has often been connected with diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of pre-defined ethnic or cultural groups. The various and numerous concepts of culture have largely been criticised with regard to their conceptualization in health research. It has been highlighted that constructivist cultural concepts are needed in health as well as in management research and that the exploration of emic concepts of culture might address health research in management and organisations in a cultural-sensitive way.
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Obviously spirituality, culture and health are interlinked topics. Attempts have been made to understand the interconnection of these three concepts. However, the question of how mental health is particularly interrelated with culture and spirituality has not yet been answered explicitly. In the past, particularly social and cultural impacts on health have been discussed, but spirituality has often been left unconsidered in the broad scientific discourse and particularly in management and organisational contexts.
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This special issue "Spirituality, culture and health in management" aims at reflecting and exploring the interlinkages of these three concepts theoretically and empirically from interdisciplinary and intercultural perspectives. It aims at contributing to exploring new and in-depth insights and to systematizing the interrelationships of these complex concepts. It thereby wants to advance the scientific theoretical discourse.
Theoretical articles and empirical (qualitative and quantitative) studies are welcome. In this Special Issue, some indicative (not exclusive) issues and questions that may reasonably be addressed by submissions include:
- How does spirituality contribute exactly to mental health and psychological well-being in management from different cultural perspectives?
- Which are the interlinking aspects of spirituality, culture and health?
- How can spirituality, culture and health and their interlinkages be explored methodologically?
- How can cultural-sensitive ways of health and spirituality be explored and which cultural concepts are needed to explore health and spirituality holistically and in-depth?
- Which role do spirituality, culture and health play in (international and global) management and which role should they play?
- How can spirituality, culture and health contribute to ethical management approaches in theory and practice?
- How can spirituality, culture and health contribute to a peaceful and respectful way of managing organisations?
- Which management practices are supported by which kind of spiritual, cultural and health-bound beliefs?
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The International Review of Psychiatry would like to address the a.m. topic through this special issue and therefore seeks excellent empirical and theoretical contributions.
Manuscripts should be submitted by email attachment to Claude-Helene Mayer (info@pctm.de).
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If you are interested in submitting an article for consideration for peer review please send:
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- An abstract of max. 200 words – DEADLINE 1 February 2013
- After acceptance of abstract a full article (max. 5000 words) – DEADLINE 1 OCTOBER 2013.
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The Special Issue will be published in 2014.
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Additional information about the journal and guidelines for authors can be found at http://informahealthcare.com/page/Description?journalCode=irp#Instructions
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