Faith, Health, and Healing in African American Life

This book offers a better understanding of the varieties of religiously based approaches to healing and alternative models of healing and health found in Black communities in the United States. Contributors address the communal aspects of faith and health and explore the contexts in which individuals make choices about their health, the roles that institutions play in shaping these decisions, and the practices individuals engage in seeking better health or coping with the health they have. By paying attention to the role of faith, spirit, and health, this book offers a fuller sense of the varieties of ways Black health and health care are perceived and addressed from an inter-religious perspective.

ISBN	0275993752	Pages	232
ISBN13	9780275993757 (What's this?)	Volumes	1
Publisher	ABC-CLIO	Weight (grammes)	499
Imprint	Praeger Publishers Inc	Published in	Westport
Format	Hardback	Series title	Religion, Health and Healing
Publication date	30 Aug 2008	Height (mm)	236
Library of Congress	BL65	Width (mm)	160
DEWEY	201.66108996	Spine width (mm)	23
DEWEY edition	DC21	Academic level	General

	Series Foreword by Susan Starr Sered and Linda L. Barnes
	Introduction
Pt. I	Ancestral Songs	1
Ch. 1	Natural and Supernatural: African American Hoodoo Narratives of Sickness and Healing by Yvonne P. Chireau	3
Ch. 2	Holistic Health and Healing: Environmental Racism and Ecological Justice by Dwight N. Hopkins	16
Pt. II	Health and Healing across the Diaspora	33
Ch. 3	Bodies in Time and the Healing of Spaces: Religion, Temporalities, and Health by Charles H. Long	35
Ch. 4	Spiritual Illness and Healing: "If the Lord Wills" by Arvilla Payne-Jackson	55
Pt. III	The Arts of Ritual and Practice	65
Ch. 5	The Marking of the Body, Memory, and the Meaning of Suffering in Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata by Carolyn M. Jones	67
Ch. 6	Just Awailing and Aweeping: Grief, Lament, and Hope as We Face the End of Life by Emilie M. Townes	85
Ch. 7	Honoring the Body: Rituals of Breath and Breathing by C. S'thembile West	96
Pt. IV	Analyzing Social Realities	109
Ch. 8	The Destruction of Aunt Ester's House: Faith, Health, and Healing in the African American Community by Terri Baltimore and Mindy Thompson Fullilove	111
Ch. 9	The Unspoken, the Spoken, and the Affirmed: Meanings of Healing, Same-Gender-Loving African Americans, and Black Churches by Linda L. Barnes	128
Pt. V	Finding and Making Wellness	145
Ch. 10	Seeking Help for the Body in the Well-Being of the Soul by Rosemary D. Gooden	147
Ch. 11	Too Gay for the Church, but Always at Home in the Club: Health, Spirituality, and Social Support among Adult Black Gay Men at Oakland's Cable Reef by D. Mark Wilson	160
Ch. 12	Healing Hearts and Broken Bodies: An African American Women's Spirituality of Healing by Stephanie Y. Mitchem	181
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"Because residency programs are now recognizing the importance of cultural competency for their trainees, it is crucial that clinicians acknowledge the importance of religion in the health care of their patients. In fact, as more becomes known in this country about how different cultures approach health and wellness, this book, along with the others in the series, will be timely and useful to all involved in health care. FAITH, HEALTH, AND HEALING IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LIFE is an excellent guide to the health belief system of a key US community." -

Journal of the American Medical Association/JAMA

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