Religion as a social determinant of public health /
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- Introduction to 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 Cathoilicism / 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
- Introduction to 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
- Introduction to 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
- Introduction to 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
- Introduction to 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.