What is the role of chaplains in our “New Age of Anxiety”? Joshua Moses is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Haverford College and has worked on religious response to the attacks of September 11th and Hurricane Katrina, studying the formation of disaster expertise (“disaster religious and spiritual care”) in what he calls the current “New Age of Anxiety.” Professor Moses’s new book Anxious Experts chronicles the rise of disaster-related spiritual expertise in the years following the attacks of 9/11. What emerges are approaches to trauma that encompass everything from meditation and acupuncture to trauma therapy and restorative justice. In this way, the ascent of spiritual expertise in response to post-9/11 disasters represents an extension of historical tensions between secular health practice and proponents of religious and spiritual care.

You can find the new book at https://www.pennpress.org/9780812225136/anxious-experts/.