State, profession, and religion: Reflecting on spirituality and indigenous social work in China in the Yushu Earthquake Relief.

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    • Subject Terms:
      NATURAL disasters & psychology; RESCUE work; NATURAL disasters; EMERGENCY management; HUMANITARIANISM; RELIGION; SOCIAL case work; SOCIAL justice; SPIRITUALITY; PSYCHOLOGY
    • Subject Terms:
      CHINA
    • Abstract:
      On April 14, 2010, a massive earthquake measuring 7.1Ms struck the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, China. Its scale notwithstanding, it has received much less national and international attention than the also immense Wenchun quake of 2008 in Sichun Province. This field report discusses the contribution of religion and spirituality in postdisaster relief in Yushu. It also calls for critical reflection on the issue of homogenization in the discussion of indigenous social work in China, and perhaps in other multiethnic countries in the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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