ABSTRACT
This chapter explores historical and contemporary entanglements of secular and religious knowledges as navigated by nurses and the nursing profession, primarily in the global North, and concludes that any presumed boundaries between secularism and sacralization, science and religion, empiricism and spirituality are relatively porous, while still being contested. Historical and contemporary landscapes of epistemological privileging in the context of healthcare are explored, whereby some knowledges are routinely privileged and others side-lined.
