Spiritual, Religious, and Faith-Based Practices in Chronicity: An Exploration of Mental Wellness in Global Context

This book explores how people use spiritual, religious, or faith-based practices to support their mental wellness in chronic conditions from diverse global contexts. It includes ethnographic observations and interviews with care providers and individuals living in chronicity, analyzed from phenomenological and hermeneutic meaning-making traditions. It highlights the importance of increased awareness, intersectoral collaboration, and practical training for care providers in this modern global era.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 270 pages
Publication date: 31 May 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive exploration delves into the profound ways in which individuals harness spiritual, religious, or faith-based practices to bolster their mental well-being amidst various forms of chronicity. Drawing from diverse global contexts and spiritual perspectives, this volume critically examines a wide range of chronic conditions, including psychosis, diabetes, depression, the oppressive forces of colonization and social marginalization, attacks of spirit possession, and other enduring mental distress. As an inter- and transdisciplinary collection, the chapters feature innovative ethnographic observations and over 300 in-depth interviews with care providers and individuals living with chronicity, primarily analyzed from the phenomenological and hermeneutic meaning-making traditions.

Overall, this book paints a vivid portrait of a contemporary global era in which spirituality and religion continue to hold significant importance in the lives of many individuals, underscoring the urgent need for heightened awareness, intersectoral collaboration, and practical training for diverse care providers.

This book will appeal 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.

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032077567