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. |Spiritual Religious and Faith-Based Practices in Chronicity An Exploration of Mental Wellness in Global Context | Religion
