Canine Ministries: Co‐Instrumentality of Human and Dog in a Christian Ontology.
SUMMARY: Within the last century, US Americans have come to humanize dogs and place a greater personal value on them than ever before. In response to this cultural change, some US Christians have begun to use therapy dogs in ministry work. For this exploratory study, six chaplains in a canine minist...
| Publicado en: | Anthropology & Humanism Vol. 47; no. 2; pp. 282 - 297 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2022
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