Daniel Enstedt is Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in religious studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.Lisen Dellenborg has a PhD in Social Anthropology and is Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Health and Care Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

• 1.Introducing Perspectives on Cultural and Religious Literacy in Healthcare. PART I. Experiences and tensions in healthcare encounters. 2.Learning together: Developing cultural and religious literacy at the workplace. 3.Cultural encounters and religion in palliative care: Religious literacy and secular healthcare in multi-religious Sweden. 4.When religiosity and healthcare merge: Case studies on sanctification of healthcare interventions with implications for religious literacy. 5.Culture of childbirth, midwifery and spirituality in an Icelandic context. 6.Perceived Religious Discrimination in Healthcare: A Qualitative Study of Formal Complaints. 7.Muslim women caregivers in elderly care in Finland. PART II. Existential care and person-centred care. 8.Making Sense of Existential Care: A sociological reconsideration of the existential for the study of chaplaincy. 9.Religious literacy and person-centred care. PART III. Overcoming Religious and cultural illiteracy in healthcare. 10.The DöBra cards:A tool to support death literacy? 11.Magic, religion, and spirituality in a secularised institution: An anthropological gaze at Swedish healthcare. 12.Understanding religion, non-religion, and spirituality in healthcare. 13.The Sense of Wonder as a necessary ‘philosophical literacy’ in healthcare. 14.Afterword.

Daniel Enstedt is Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in religious studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.Lisen Dellenborg has a PhD in Social Anthropology and is Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Health and Care Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

• 1.Introducing Perspectives on Cultural and Religious Literacy in Healthcare. PART I. Experiences and tensions in healthcare encounters. 2.Learning together: Developing cultural and religious literacy at the workplace. 3.Cultural encounters and religion in palliative care: Religious literacy and secular healthcare in multi-religious Sweden. 4.When religiosity and healthcare merge: Case studies on sanctification of healthcare interventions with implications for religious literacy. 5.Culture of childbirth, midwifery and spirituality in an Icelandic context. 6.Perceived Religious Discrimination in Healthcare: A Qualitative Study of Formal Complaints. 7.Muslim women caregivers in elderly care in Finland. PART II. Existential care and person-centred care. 8.Making Sense of Existential Care: A sociological reconsideration of the existential for the study of chaplaincy. 9.Religious literacy and person-centred care. PART III. Overcoming Religious and cultural illiteracy in healthcare. 10.The DöBra cards:A tool to support death literacy? 11.Magic, religion, and spirituality in a secularised institution: An anthropological gaze at Swedish healthcare. 12.Understanding religion, non-religion, and spirituality in healthcare. 13.The Sense of Wonder as a necessary ‘philosophical literacy’ in healthcare. 14.Afterword.

Daniel Enstedt is Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in religious studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.Lisen Dellenborg has a PhD in Social Anthropology and is Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Health and Care Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

• 1.Introducing Perspectives on Cultural and Religious Literacy in Healthcare. PART I. Experiences and tensions in healthcare encounters. 2.Learning together: Developing cultural and religious literacy at the workplace. 3.Cultural encounters and religion in palliative care: Religious literacy and secular healthcare in multi-religious Sweden. 4.When religiosity and healthcare merge: Case studies on sanctification of healthcare interventions with implications for religious literacy. 5.Culture of childbirth, midwifery and spirituality in an Icelandic context. 6.Perceived Religious Discrimination in Healthcare: A Qualitative Study of Formal Complaints. 7.Muslim women caregivers in elderly care in Finland. PART II. Existential care and person-centred care. 8.Making Sense of Existential Care: A sociological reconsideration of the existential for the study of chaplaincy. 9.Religious literacy and person-centred care. PART III. Overcoming Religious and cultural illiteracy in healthcare. 10.The DöBra cards:A tool to support death literacy? 11.Magic, religion, and spirituality in a secularised institution: An anthropological gaze at Swedish healthcare. 12.Understanding religion, non-religion, and spirituality in healthcare. 13.The Sense of Wonder as a necessary ‘philosophical literacy’ in healthcare. 14.Afterword.