What anthropology to include the spiritual dimension of care? Future prospects

The spiritual experience of patients is interpreted by the biomedical and clinical sciences through a spiritual anthropology, i.e. a normative representation of what it is to be a spiritual human being. My thesis is that this normative anthropology, based on the concept of well-being, is incomplete and cannot really understand the fullness of the singular spiritual experience. This normative anthropology is incomplete inasmuch it is mute on such issues as language, tradition, and temporality. By an exploration of those themes, I want to show that attention given to them allows a better understanding of the singularity, as well as the social dimension, of any spiritual experience lived in everyday life and in times of illness.