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Spiritual, Religious, and Faith-Based Practices in Chronicity
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This book explores how people draw upon spiritual, religious, or faith-based practices to support their mental wellness amidst forms of chronicity. From diverse global contexts and spiritual perspectives, this volume critically examines several chronic conditions, such as psychosis, diabetes, depression, oppressive forces of colonization and social marginalization, attacks of spirit possession, or other forms of persistent mental duress. As an inter- and transdisciplinary collection, the chapters include innovative ethnographic observations and over 300 in-depth interviews with care providers and individuals living in chronicity, analyzed primarily from the phenomenological and hermeneutic meaning-making traditions. Overall, this book depicts a modern global era in which spiritualty and religion maintain an important role in many peoples’ lives, underscoring a need for increased awareness, intersectoral collaboration, and practical training for varied care providers. This book will be of interest to scholars of religion and health, the sociology and psychology of religion, medical and psychological anthropology, religious studies, and global health studies, as well as applied health and mental health professionals in psychology, social work, physical and occupational therapy, cultural psychiatry, public health, and medicine.
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Keywords
- Aspects of religion (non-Christian)
- Comparative religion
- Health, illness and addiction: social aspects
- Humanities
- Illness & addiction: social aspects
- Religion & beliefs
- Religion & science
- Religion and science
- Religion: general
- Religious groups: social & cultural aspects
- Religious issues & debates
- Social groups
- Social groups: religious groups and communities
- Social issues & processes
- Society & culture: general
- Society & Social Sciences
- Spirituality & religious experience
- Spirituality and religious experience
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DOI: 10.4324/9781003043508Editions