Faith-based health justice transforming agendas of faith communities
Introduction : traditions for health and imperatives of justice / Ville Päivänsalo -- Part 1. Towards basic health justice -- Theme introduction / Ville Päivänsalo and Ayesha Ahmad -- Transformations of Protestant faith-based health work in an age of fragile development / Ville Päivänsalo -- Toward...
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Minneapolis Minnesota
Fortress Press
2021
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction : traditions for health and imperatives of justice / Ville Päivänsalo -- Part 1. Towards basic health justice -- Theme introduction / Ville Päivänsalo and Ayesha Ahmad -- Transformations of Protestant faith-based health work in an age of fragile development / Ville Päivänsalo -- Toward basic health justice : grassroots challenges in church-related health services in Tanzania / Josephine Sundqvist and Thomas Ndaluka -- Negotiating the healing mission : social justice and basic health at two Methodist inner-city missions in South Africa / Elina Hankela -- Hinduism and health justice : an Indian perspective / Alok Chantia and Preeti Misra -- Christian organizations for basic health justice in India in the twenty-first century / S.N. Among Jamir and Ronald Lalthanmawia -- Part 2. Faith traditions for health and well-being -- Theme introduction / Ville Päivänsalo -- Islamic faith for health and welfare in the globalizing South Asia : the case of Bangladesh / Abu Sayem -- Healing and salvation : the relation of health and religion in the context of Christianity / Thomas Renkert -- The role and impact of Christian Medical College, Vellore, in the promotion of health justice in India / Arul Dhas T. -- Empirical perspectives on religion and health justice : the case in Finland and across cultures / Henrietta Grönlund -- Part 3. Transforming agendas of faith communities -- Theme introduction / Ayesha Ahmad and George Zachariah -- The contribution of Islamic faith-based hospitals to the promotion of public health in Bangladesh : a study of Islami Bank and Ibn Sina Hospitals / Jibon Nesa and Ville Päivänsalo -- Islamic health justice for women in Saudi Arabia / Hana Al-Bannay -- Ethics of HIV/AIDS and religion in Africa : a systematic literature review / Sahaya G. Selvam -- Traditional, Christian, and modern approaches to masculinity : health-care volunteers in Tanzania / Auli Vähäkangas -- Theological and ethical reflections on HIV/AIDS : perspectives from India / George Zachariah -- Part 4. Mental health -- Theme introduction / Mari Stenlund -- Sangomas, somatization, and sharedness / Ayesha Ahmad -- The British Bangladeshi experience of mental illness / Khaldoon Ahmed and Simon Dein -- The freedom of religion and the right to mental health : challenges and a quest for reconciliation / Mari Stenlund -- Global burden of disease, addiction, and the role of religion / Janne Nikkinen "In Faith-based health justice, a stellar assembly of scholars mines critical insights into the promotion of health justice across Christian and Islamic faith traditions and beyond. Contributors to the volume consider what health justice might mean today, if developed in accordance with faith traditions whose commandment to care for the poor, ill, and marginalized lies at the core of their theology, and what kind of transformation of both faith traditions and public policies would be needed in the face of the health justice challenges in our turbulent times"--Page 4 of cover |
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| Beschreibung: | xii, 358 Seiten 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781506465425 978-1-5064-6542-5 |