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Title Faith-Based Health Justice : Transforming Agendas of Faith Communities / editors: Ville Päivänsalo, Ayesha Ahmad, George Zachariah, Mari Stenlund
Published Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (371 pages)
Contents Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Brief Description -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Traditions for Health and Imperatives of Justice -- Part 1. Toward Basic Health Justice: Theme Introduction -- 2. Transformations of Protestant Faith-Based Health Work in an Age of Fragile Development -- 3. Toward Basic Health Justice: Grassroots Challenges in Church-Related Health Services in Tanzania -- 4. Negotiating the Healing Mission: Social Justice and Basic Health at Two Methodist Inner-City Missions in South Africa -- 5. Hinduism and Health Justice: An Indian Perspective
6. Christian Organizations for Basic Health Justice in India in the Twenty-First Century -- Part 2. Faith Traditions for Health and Well-Being: Theme Introduction -- 7. Islamic Faith for Health and Welfare in the Globalizing South Asia: The Case of Bangladesh -- 8. Healing and Salvation: The Relation of Health and Religion in the Context of Christianity -- 9. The Role and Impact of Christian Medical College, Vellore, in the Promotion of Health Justice in India -- 10. Empirical Perspectives on Religion and Health Justice: The Case in Finland and across Cultures
Part 3. Transforming Agendas of Faith Communities: Theme Introduction -- 11. The Contribution of Islamic Faith-Based Hospitals to the Promotion of Public Health in Bangladesh: A Study of Islami Bank and Ibn Sina Hospitals -- 12. Islamic Health Justice for Women in Saudi Arabia -- 13. Ethics of HIV/AIDS and Religion in Africa: A Systematic Literature Review -- 14. Traditional, Christian, and Modern Approaches to Masculinity: Health-Care Volunteers in Tanzania -- 15. Theological and Ethical Reflections on HIV/AIDS: Perspectives from India -- Part 4. Mental Health: Theme Introduction
16. Sangomas, Somatization, and Sharedness -- 17. The British Bangladeshi Experience of Mental Illness -- 18. The Freedom of Religion and the Right to Mental Health: Challenges and a Quest for Reconciliation -- 19. Global Burden of Disease, Addiction, and the Role of Religion -- Contributors -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects
Summary In Faith-Based Health Justice, scholars mine critical insights into the promotion of health justice across Christian and Islamic faith traditions and beyond. Contributors 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 would be needed in the face of the health justice challenges today?
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 23, 2021)
Subject Social justice -- Religious aspects.
Social service -- Religious aspects.
Medical care -- Religious aspects.
Medical care -- Religious aspects.
Social justice -- Religious aspects.
Social service -- Religious aspects.
Form Electronic book
Author Päivänsalo, Ville, editor
Ahmad, Ayesha, editor
Stenlund, Mari, editor
Zachariah, George, editor
ISBN 1506465439
9781506465432