Tracy J Trothen
Biographic Data
| ID | 312899 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tracy J Trothen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tracy J |
| FAMILY NAME | Trothen |
| SIGNATURE | TROTHEN T J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
How Community-Based Health and Social Care Professionals Support Unpaid Caregivers: Experiences From One Health Authority in Ontario, Canada
In Ontario, Canada, rising rates of caregiver distress have been the ‘canary in the coal mine’ for a health system out of balance with the needs of an ageing population. Community-based health and social care professionals are well placed to play an important role in the caregiver support process; however, a gap has remained in the understanding of if and how caregiver support strategies are operationalized or experienced by community service pro…
Psychedelic Christianity: Commentary and reply
AI and East Asian Philosophical and Religious Traditions: Relationality and Fluidity
This article examines aspects of the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and religion, challenging Western Christian perspectives that warn against playing God and ascribing human and God-like characteristics to AI. Instead of a theistic emphasis, East Asian religious perspectives emphasize concern for the potential implications of AI on communities and relationships. This article argues for the inclusion of perspectives from Chinese and…
Domains of spirituality and their importance to the health of 75 533 adolescents in 12 countries
Spirituality is an ancient concept with many contemporary applications to the field of health promotion. While recognized in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as a basic human right, definitional misunderstandings about what spirituality is, and is not, and the mechanisms by which it affects the health of young people, remain. In this cross-national analysis involving >75 000 adolescents from 12 countries, we examined the relative impo…
Faster, Higher, More Moral: Human Enhancement and Christianity
The three authors of this article explore the intersection of moral enhancement, ethics, and Christianity. Trothen reviews the meaning and potential of moral enhancements, considering some of the risks and limitations. Trothen identifies three broad ethical questions, which all three authors agree upon, that arise from a Christian theological perspective: what it means to be human, choice, and social justice. Trothen concludes that respect for hu…
Replika: Spiritual Enhancement Technology
The potential spiritual impacts of AI are an under-researched ethics concern. In this theoretical essay, I introduce the established spiritual assessment tool, the Spiritual Assessment and Intervention Model (Spiritual AIM). Next, I discuss some existing and probable AI technologies, such as immersive tech and bots that have impacts on spiritual health, including the chat-bot Replika. The three core spiritual needs outlined in the Spiritual AIM a…
Intelligent Assistive Technology Ethics for Aging Adults: Spiritual Impacts as a Necessary Consideration
Potential spiritual impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven Assistive Technologies (AT) for older adults are absent in most ethics conversations. Intelligent Assistive Technology (IAT) is the term used to describe the spectrum of Assistive Technologies that use AI. In this theoretical essay, I begin by introducing examples of AT and IAT for older adults with age-related disabilities. I argue that spirituality is a marginalized value in eth…
Moral distress experienced by community service providers of home health and social care in Ontario, Canada
Moral distress occurs when one knows a morally correct action to take but feels powerless to act the way one believes is right. Moral distress has been studied in many contexts but there remains a gap in our understanding of the phenomenon as it manifests outside of hospital-based settings. The aim of this study was to explore the nature of the moral distress experience among community-based health and social care professionals working with older…
Sport, Spirituality, and Religion: New Intersections
Sport, religion, and spirituality intersect in diverse ways. As the body of interdisciplinary scholarly work addressing these intersections increases, more questions and insights are being generated, as evidenced in this collection. Five themes that arise in this Special Issue of Religions are identified and explored. Examples from each article are used to develop these themes. To whet the reader's appetite, thought-provoking reflections are offe…
Spirituality, Sport, and Doping: More than Just a Game
Moral Bioenhancement through An Intersectional Theo-Ethical Lens: Refocusing on Divine Image-Bearing and Interdependence
This article begins with a brief interrogation of the meanings of moral and virtue. Next, an intersectional Christian theo-ethical lens focusing on humans as divine image-bearers is used to generate critical insights regarding the influence of extreme individualism on approaches to moral bioenhancement. This alternative lens emphasizes the interdependence of life, and the contextual character of moral dispositions. The questions of what it means …
Bodies and Behaviours: A Study of Body Image in Adolescent Girls and the Canadian Church
This is an interdisciplinary study that applies Christian feminist theology and health sciences’ insights to the results of a study concerning adolescent girls and body image. The desire of adolescent girls to be thin is inherently connected to their desire for wholeness, acceptance and unconditional love, and the promise of Christianity reaches a wholeness of this depth. And yet, the reality of the church's relationship to the female body often …
Inequalities in the spiritual health of young Canadians: A national, cross-sectional study
Study findings highlight potential inequalities in the spiritual health of young Canadians, as well as opportunities for methodological advances in the assessment of adolescent spiritual health in our population
Eucharistic Eating, Family Meals and the Health of Adolescent Girls: A Canadian Study
This national study of adolescent Canadian girls focuses on church or religious group involvement as a potential determinant of health, as well as participation in family meals as a spiritual practice with potential health benefits. Current church involvement did not relate to improved emotional health, suggesting the need for more integrative messages and practices. Findings confirmed the strong protective relationship between regular participat…
Response to: Theology from Outside the Foxhole
A response to L. Clifton Edwards’ reflections on military heroism
Shattering the Illusion: Child Sexual Abuse and Canadian Religious Institutions
The Anglican Church in Canada
Holy Acceptable Violence? Violence in Hockey and Christian Atonement Theories
L’hockey et le christianitsme sont souvent considerer des activité spirituels pour leur disciples et participants. Cet essai, écrit d’une perspective morale féministe, examine plusieur type de violence qui caractérise l’hockey professionnel au Canada, incluent la justice économique, commodification et sexualization des athletes, dévouement et héroisme, dommages physiques au cours des jeux, l’abus sexuel, et une mentalité dualistique qui rend les …
Hockey: A divine sport?-Canada's national sport in relation to embodiment, community and hope
Building on the claim that sport functions as a popular religion, I develop the argument that sport can but does not always offer its followers something consonant with religiously espoused values. These values are often more attractive and meaningful for many than what is offered by institutional religions. Hockey in Canada will be examined as a case study through which the question of what is religious about hockey and why it appeals to so many…
A social ethical analysis of the United Church of Canada's historical approach to human sexuality
This article provides a feminist ethical analysis of the United Church of Canada's approach to sexuality between the Church's formation in 1925 and 1980. An examination of this period in the Church's history is essential to an adequate understanding of the development of its current approach to sexuality. Two paradigm shifts can be observed from this analysis. First, the Church's understanding of the purpose of human sexuality has moved from the …
Replika: Spiritual Enhancement Technology
The potential spiritual impacts of AI are an under-researched ethics concern. In this theoretical essay, I introduce the established spiritual assessment tool, the Spiritual Assessment and Intervention Model (Spiritual AIM). Next, I discuss some existing and probable AI technologies, such as immersive tech and bots that have impacts on spiritual health, including the chat-bot Replika. The three core spiritual needs outlined in the Spiritual AIM a…
Hockey: A divine sport?-Canada's national sport in relation to embodiment, community and hope
Building on the claim that sport functions as a popular religion, I develop the argument that sport can but does not always offer its followers something consonant with religiously espoused values. These values are often more attractive and meaningful for many than what is offered by institutional religions. Hockey in Canada will be examined as a case study through which the question of what is religious about hockey and why it appeals to so many…
AI and East Asian Philosophical and Religious Traditions: Relationality and Fluidity
This article examines aspects of the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and religion, challenging Western Christian perspectives that warn against playing God and ascribing human and God-like characteristics to AI. Instead of a theistic emphasis, East Asian religious perspectives emphasize concern for the potential implications of AI on communities and relationships. This article argues for the inclusion of perspectives from Chinese and…
Psychedelic Christianity: Commentary and reply
Faster, Higher, More Moral: Human Enhancement and Christianity
The three authors of this article explore the intersection of moral enhancement, ethics, and Christianity. Trothen reviews the meaning and potential of moral enhancements, considering some of the risks and limitations. Trothen identifies three broad ethical questions, which all three authors agree upon, that arise from a Christian theological perspective: what it means to be human, choice, and social justice. Trothen concludes that respect for hu…
Intelligent Assistive Technology Ethics for Aging Adults: Spiritual Impacts as a Necessary Consideration
Potential spiritual impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven Assistive Technologies (AT) for older adults are absent in most ethics conversations. Intelligent Assistive Technology (IAT) is the term used to describe the spectrum of Assistive Technologies that use AI. In this theoretical essay, I begin by introducing examples of AT and IAT for older adults with age-related disabilities. I argue that spirituality is a marginalized value in eth…
Sport, Spirituality, and Religion: New Intersections
Sport, religion, and spirituality intersect in diverse ways. As the body of interdisciplinary scholarly work addressing these intersections increases, more questions and insights are being generated, as evidenced in this collection. Five themes that arise in this Special Issue of Religions are identified and explored. Examples from each article are used to develop these themes. To whet the reader's appetite, thought-provoking reflections are offe…
Moral Bioenhancement through An Intersectional Theo-Ethical Lens: Refocusing on Divine Image-Bearing and Interdependence
This article begins with a brief interrogation of the meanings of moral and virtue. Next, an intersectional Christian theo-ethical lens focusing on humans as divine image-bearers is used to generate critical insights regarding the influence of extreme individualism on approaches to moral bioenhancement. This alternative lens emphasizes the interdependence of life, and the contextual character of moral dispositions. The questions of what it means …
A social ethical analysis of the United Church of Canada's historical approach to human sexuality
This article provides a feminist ethical analysis of the United Church of Canada's approach to sexuality between the Church's formation in 1925 and 1980. An examination of this period in the Church's history is essential to an adequate understanding of the development of its current approach to sexuality. Two paradigm shifts can be observed from this analysis. First, the Church's understanding of the purpose of human sexuality has moved from the …
Hockey: A divine sport?-Canada's national sport in relation to embodiment, community and hope
Building on the claim that sport functions as a popular religion, I develop the argument that sport can but does not always offer its followers something consonant with religiously espoused values. These values are often more attractive and meaningful for many than what is offered by institutional religions. Hockey in Canada will be examined as a case study through which the question of what is religious about hockey and why it appeals to so many…
Holy Acceptable Violence? Violence in Hockey and Christian Atonement Theories
L’hockey et le christianitsme sont souvent considerer des activité spirituels pour leur disciples et participants. Cet essai, écrit d’une perspective morale féministe, examine plusieur type de violence qui caractérise l’hockey professionnel au Canada, incluent la justice économique, commodification et sexualization des athletes, dévouement et héroisme, dommages physiques au cours des jeux, l’abus sexuel, et une mentalité dualistique qui rend les …
Shattering the Illusion: Child Sexual Abuse and Canadian Religious Institutions
The Anglican Church in Canada
Response to: Theology from Outside the Foxhole
A response to L. Clifton Edwards’ reflections on military heroism
Eucharistic Eating, Family Meals and the Health of Adolescent Girls: A Canadian Study
This national study of adolescent Canadian girls focuses on church or religious group involvement as a potential determinant of health, as well as participation in family meals as a spiritual practice with potential health benefits. Current church involvement did not relate to improved emotional health, suggesting the need for more integrative messages and practices. Findings confirmed the strong protective relationship between regular participat…
Bodies and Behaviours: A Study of Body Image in Adolescent Girls and the Canadian Church
This is an interdisciplinary study that applies Christian feminist theology and health sciences’ insights to the results of a study concerning adolescent girls and body image. The desire of adolescent girls to be thin is inherently connected to their desire for wholeness, acceptance and unconditional love, and the promise of Christianity reaches a wholeness of this depth. And yet, the reality of the church's relationship to the female body often …
Inequalities in the spiritual health of young Canadians: A national, cross-sectional study
Study findings highlight potential inequalities in the spiritual health of young Canadians, as well as opportunities for methodological advances in the assessment of adolescent spiritual health in our population
Moral Bioenhancement through An Intersectional Theo-Ethical Lens: Refocusing on Divine Image-Bearing and Interdependence
This article begins with a brief interrogation of the meanings of moral and virtue. Next, an intersectional Christian theo-ethical lens focusing on humans as divine image-bearers is used to generate critical insights regarding the influence of extreme individualism on approaches to moral bioenhancement. This alternative lens emphasizes the interdependence of life, and the contextual character of moral dispositions. The questions of what it means …
Spirituality, Sport, and Doping: More than Just a Game
Sport, Spirituality, and Religion: New Intersections
Sport, religion, and spirituality intersect in diverse ways. As the body of interdisciplinary scholarly work addressing these intersections increases, more questions and insights are being generated, as evidenced in this collection. Five themes that arise in this Special Issue of Religions are identified and explored. Examples from each article are used to develop these themes. To whet the reader's appetite, thought-provoking reflections are offe…
Moral distress experienced by community service providers of home health and social care in Ontario, Canada
Moral distress occurs when one knows a morally correct action to take but feels powerless to act the way one believes is right. Moral distress has been studied in many contexts but there remains a gap in our understanding of the phenomenon as it manifests outside of hospital-based settings. The aim of this study was to explore the nature of the moral distress experience among community-based health and social care professionals working with older…
Faster, Higher, More Moral: Human Enhancement and Christianity
The three authors of this article explore the intersection of moral enhancement, ethics, and Christianity. Trothen reviews the meaning and potential of moral enhancements, considering some of the risks and limitations. Trothen identifies three broad ethical questions, which all three authors agree upon, that arise from a Christian theological perspective: what it means to be human, choice, and social justice. Trothen concludes that respect for hu…
Replika: Spiritual Enhancement Technology
The potential spiritual impacts of AI are an under-researched ethics concern. In this theoretical essay, I introduce the established spiritual assessment tool, the Spiritual Assessment and Intervention Model (Spiritual AIM). Next, I discuss some existing and probable AI technologies, such as immersive tech and bots that have impacts on spiritual health, including the chat-bot Replika. The three core spiritual needs outlined in the Spiritual AIM a…
Intelligent Assistive Technology Ethics for Aging Adults: Spiritual Impacts as a Necessary Consideration
Potential spiritual impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven Assistive Technologies (AT) for older adults are absent in most ethics conversations. Intelligent Assistive Technology (IAT) is the term used to describe the spectrum of Assistive Technologies that use AI. In this theoretical essay, I begin by introducing examples of AT and IAT for older adults with age-related disabilities. I argue that spirituality is a marginalized value in eth…
Domains of spirituality and their importance to the health of 75 533 adolescents in 12 countries
Spirituality is an ancient concept with many contemporary applications to the field of health promotion. While recognized in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as a basic human right, definitional misunderstandings about what spirituality is, and is not, and the mechanisms by which it affects the health of young people, remain. In this cross-national analysis involving >75 000 adolescents from 12 countries, we examined the relative impo…
How Community-Based Health and Social Care Professionals Support Unpaid Caregivers: Experiences From One Health Authority in Ontario, Canada
In Ontario, Canada, rising rates of caregiver distress have been the ‘canary in the coal mine’ for a health system out of balance with the needs of an ageing population. Community-based health and social care professionals are well placed to play an important role in the caregiver support process; however, a gap has remained in the understanding of if and how caregiver support strategies are operationalized or experienced by community service pro…
Psychedelic Christianity: Commentary and reply
AI and East Asian Philosophical and Religious Traditions: Relationality and Fluidity
This article examines aspects of the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and religion, challenging Western Christian perspectives that warn against playing God and ascribing human and God-like characteristics to AI. Instead of a theistic emphasis, East Asian religious perspectives emphasize concern for the potential implications of AI on communities and relationships. This article argues for the inclusion of perspectives from Chinese and…
Psychology (15 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (5 works) · Spirituality (5 works)