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Religion as a social determinant of public health / edited by Ellen L. Idler.

Contributor(s): Idler, Ellen L [editor.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: xviii, 445 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780199362202 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0199362203 (hardcover : alk. paper)Subject(s): Health -- Religious aspects | Public health | ReligionDDC classification: 201/.7621 LOC classification: BL65.M4 | R45 2014Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
James W. Curran -- Religious literacy is a twenty-first-century skill / Ellen Idler and Laurie Patton -- Religion: the invisible social determinant / Ellen Idler -- Public health in the practices of the world's faith traditions. -- Refuge meditation in contemporary Buddhism / Geshe Lobsang Tenzin Negi and Brendan Ozawa-de Silva -- Taiji (T̕ai-chi) in Taoism / Eric Reinders -- Veiling in Islam: a Western feminist outsider's perspective / Kathryn M. Yount -- Vegetarianism in Seventh-day Adventism / George H. Grant and Jose Montenegro -- The Eucharist in Roman Catholicism / Phillip M. Thompson -- Congregational hymn singing in mainline Protestantism / Don E. Saliers -- Hatsumōde, the visitation of Shinto shrines: religion and culture in the Japanese context / Chikako Ozawa-de Silva -- Fasting in Islam / Abdullahi An-Naʼim -- Circumcision in Judaism: the sign of the covenant / Don Seeman -- Puberty rites in African religious traditions: kloyo peemi / Emmanuel Yartekwei Amugi Lartey -- Baptism by immersion in Latin American Pentecostalism: the Santa Cruz case / L. Wesley de Souza -- Cremation rites in Hinduism: death, after death, and thereafter / Bhagirath Majmudar -- Religion in the history of public health. -- Christian commitment to public well-being: John Wesley's "sensible regimen" and Primitive physick / Karen D. Scheib -- US public health reform movements and the social gospel / John Blevins -- Anthony Comstock: a religious fundamentalist's negative impact on reproductive health / Lynn Hogue and Carol Hogue -- Religion and public health across the life course. -- Religion and reproductive health / Laura M. Gaydos and Patricia Z. Page -- Religion and physical health from childhood to old age / Ellen Idler -- Religion, spirituality, and mental health: toward a preventive model based on the cultivation of basic human values / Brendan Ozawa-de Silva -- Religion and public health across the globe. -- Religion and global health / Peter J. Brown -- The Christian Medical Commission and the World Health Organization / Matthew Bersagel Braley -- Ingenious institutions: religious origins of health and development organizations / Ellen Idler -- Mapping religious resources for health: the African Religious Health Assets Programme / James R. Cochrane, Deborah McFarland, and Gary R. Gunderson -- Religion and three public health challenges of our time. -- HIV/AIDS / Safiya George Dalmida and Sandra Thurman -- Influenza pandemic / Mimi Kiser and Scott Santibañez -- Alzheimer's disease and dementias / Kenneth Hepburn and Theodore M. Johnson II -- Religion's role as a social determinant of twenty-first-century health: perspectives from the disciplines / Paul Root Wolpe, Walter Burnett, and Ellen Idler.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / James W. Curran -- Preface. Religious literacy is a twenty-first-century skill / Ellen Idler and Laurie Patton -- Religion: the invisible social determinant / Ellen Idler -- Part 1. Public health in the practices of the world's faith traditions. -- Refuge meditation in contemporary Buddhism / Geshe Lobsang Tenzin Negi and Brendan Ozawa-de Silva -- Taiji (T̕ai-chi) in Taoism / Eric Reinders -- Veiling in Islam: a Western feminist outsider's perspective / Kathryn M. Yount -- Vegetarianism in Seventh-day Adventism / George H. Grant and Jose Montenegro -- The Eucharist in Roman Catholicism / Phillip M. Thompson -- Congregational hymn singing in mainline Protestantism / Don E. Saliers -- Hatsumōde, the visitation of Shinto shrines: religion and culture in the Japanese context / Chikako Ozawa-de Silva -- Fasting in Islam / Abdullahi An-Naʼim -- Circumcision in Judaism: the sign of the covenant / Don Seeman -- Puberty rites in African religious traditions: kloyo peemi / Emmanuel Yartekwei Amugi Lartey -- Baptism by immersion in Latin American Pentecostalism: the Santa Cruz case / L. Wesley de Souza -- Cremation rites in Hinduism: death, after death, and thereafter / Bhagirath Majmudar -- Part 2. Religion in the history of public health. -- Christian commitment to public well-being: John Wesley's "sensible regimen" and Primitive physick / Karen D. Scheib -- US public health reform movements and the social gospel / John Blevins -- Anthony Comstock: a religious fundamentalist's negative impact on reproductive health / Lynn Hogue and Carol Hogue -- Part 3. Religion and public health across the life course. -- Religion and reproductive health / Laura M. Gaydos and Patricia Z. Page -- Religion and physical health from childhood to old age / Ellen Idler -- Religion, spirituality, and mental health: toward a preventive model based on the cultivation of basic human values / Brendan Ozawa-de Silva -- Part 4. Religion and public health across the globe. -- Religion and global health / Peter J. Brown -- The Christian Medical Commission and the World Health Organization / Matthew Bersagel Braley -- Ingenious institutions: religious origins of health and development organizations / Ellen Idler -- Mapping religious resources for health: the African Religious Health Assets Programme / James R. Cochrane, Deborah McFarland, and Gary R. Gunderson -- Part 5. Religion and three public health challenges of our time. -- HIV/AIDS / Safiya George Dalmida and Sandra Thurman -- Influenza pandemic / Mimi Kiser and Scott Santibañez -- Alzheimer's disease and dementias / Kenneth Hepburn and Theodore M. Johnson II -- Conclusion: Religion's role as a social determinant of twenty-first-century health: perspectives from the disciplines / Paul Root Wolpe, Walter Burnett, and Ellen Idler.

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