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Handbook of Religion and Health

Author : Harold G. Koenig
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190088850
Total Pages : 1113 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Religion and Health written by Harold G. Koenig and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-12 with total page 1113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The 2001 edition (1st) was a comprehensive review of history, research, and discussions on religion and health through the year 2000. The Appendix listed 1,200 separate quantitative studies on religion and health each rated in quality on 0-10 scale, followed by about 2,000 references and an extensive index for rapid topic identification. The 2012 edition (2nd) of the Handbook systematically updated the research from 2000 to 2010, with the number of quantitative studies then reaching the thousands. This 2022 edition (3rd) is the most scientifically rigorous addition to date, covering the best research published through 2021 with an emphasis on prospective studies and randomized controlled trials. Beginning with a Foreword by Dr. Howard K. Koh, former US Assistant Secretary for Health for the Department of Health and Human Services, this nearly 600,000-word volume examines almost every aspect of health, reviewing past and more recent research on the relationship between religion and health outcomes. Furthermore, nearly all of its 34 chapters conclude with clinical and community applications making this text relevant to both health care professionals (physicians, nurses, social workers, rehabilitation therapists, counsellors, psychologists, sociologists, etc.) and clergy (community clergy, chaplains, pastoral counsellors, etc.). The book's extensive Appendix focuses on the best studies, describing each study in a single line, allowing researchers to quickly locate the existing research. It should not be surprising that for Handbook for the past two decades has been the most cited of all references on religion and health"--

The Link Between Religion and Health

Author : Harold George Koenig
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195143604
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book The Link Between Religion and Health written by Harold George Koenig and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) studies relationships between mental state and the nervous, endocrine and immune systems. It focuses on how mental states and beliefs affect physical health. This book examines topics relating to religious faith and behaviour.

Religion, Families, and Health

Author : Christopher G. Ellison
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813547180
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Religion, Families, and Health written by Christopher G. Ellison and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a compilation of population-based research on the relationships of religion to family life and health.

Religion's Relationship to Happiness, Civic Engagement and Health Around the World

Author : Dalia Fahmy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780997419054
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Religion's Relationship to Happiness, Civic Engagement and Health Around the World written by Dalia Fahmy and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Religion and the Health of the Public

Author : G. Gunderson
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780230341272
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Religion and the Health of the Public written by G. Gunderson and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book proposes a critical theory of the role and place of religion in public health and argues for a programmatic reorientation of these two fields of practice and inquiry to more effectively align religious health assets - widely present in many contexts - and public health services and facilities.

Handbook of Religion and Health

Author : Harold George Koenig
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195118667
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Religion and Health written by Harold George Koenig and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What effect does religion have on physical and mental health? In answering this question, this book reviews and discusses research on the relationship between religion and a variety of mental and physical health outcomes, including depression and anxiety; heart disease, stroke, and cancer; and health related behaviors such as smoking and substance abuse. The authors examine the positive and negative effects of religion on health throughout the life span, from childhood to old age. Based on their findings, they build theoretical models illustrating the behavioral, psychological, social, and physiological pathways through which religion may influence health. The authors also review research on the impact of religious affiliation, belief, and practice on the use of health services and compliance with medical treatment. In conclusion, they discuss the clinical relevance of their findings and make recommendations for future research priorities. Offering the first comprehensive examination of its topic, this volume is an indispensable resource for research scientists, health professionals, public policy makers, and anyone interested in the relationship between religion and health.

Handbook of Religion and Health

Author : Harold Koenig
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195335953
Total Pages : 1186 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Religion and Health written by Harold Koenig and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 1186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Completely revises and updates the first edition ... surveys the historical connections between religion and health and grapples with the distinction between the terms ''religion'' and ''spirituality'' in research and clinical practice. It reviews research on religion and mental health, as well as extensive research literature on the mind-body relationship, and develops a model to explain how religious involvement may impact physical health through the mind-body mechanisms. It also explores the direct relationships between religion and physical health, covering such topics as immune and endocrine function, heart disease, hypertension and stroke, neurological disorders, cancer, and infectious diseases; and examines the consequences of illness including chronic pain, disability, and quality of life ... [The] authors are physicians: a psychiatrist and geriatrician, a primary care physician, and a professor of nursing and specialist in mental health nursing"--Provided by publisher.

Why Religion and Spirituality Matter for Public Health

Author : Doug Oman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319739662
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Why Religion and Spirituality Matter for Public Health written by Doug Oman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reviews the exploding religion/spirituality (R/S) and health literature from a population health perspective. It emphasizes the distinctive Public Health concern for promoting health and preventing disease in societies, nations, and communities, as well as individuals. Part I offers a rigorous review of mainstream biomedical and social scientific theory and evidence on R/S-health relations. Addressing key gaps in previous literature, it reviews evidence from a population health viewpoint, surveying pertinent findings and theories from the perspective of Public Health subfields that range from Environmental Health Sciences to Public Health Nutrition to Health Policy & Management and Public Health Education. In Part II, practitioners describe in detail how attending to R/S factors enhances the work of clinicians and community health practitioners. R/S provides an additional set of concepts and tools to address opportunities and challenges ranging from behavior and institutional change to education, policy, and advocacy. Part III empowers educators, analyzing pedagogical needs and offering diverse short chapters by faculty who teach R/S-health connections in many nationally top-ranked Schools of Public Health. International and global perspectives are highlighted in a concluding chapter and many places throughout the volume. This book addresses a pressing need for Public Health research, practice and teaching: A substantial evidence base now links religious and spiritual (R/S) factors to health. In the past 20 years, over 100 systematic reviews and 30 meta-analyses on R/S-health were published in refereed journals. But despite this explosion of interest, R/S factors remain neglected in Public Health teaching and research. Public Health lags behind related fields such as medicine, psychology, and nursing, where R/S factors receive more attention. This book can help Public Health catch up. It offers abundant key resources to empower public health professionals, instructors, and students to address R/S, serving at once as a course text, a field manual and a research handbook.

Religion and Health

Author : James J. Walsh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1625585241
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Health written by James J. Walsh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Joseph Walsh, M.D., LL.D., Litt.D., Sc.D. (1865-1942) was an American physician and author, born in New York City. He graduated from Fordham College in 1884 and from the University of Pennsylvania (M.D.) in 1895. After postgraduate work in Paris, Vienna, and Berlin, he settled in New York.

Medicine, Religion, and Health

Author : Harold G Koenig
Publisher : Templeton Foundation Press
ISBN 13 : 1599471418
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (994 download)

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Download or read book Medicine, Religion, and Health written by Harold G Koenig and published by Templeton Foundation Press. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicine, Religion, and Health: Where Science and Spirituality Meet will be the first title published in the new Templeton Science and Religion Series, in which scientists from a wide range of fields distill their experience and knowledge into brief tours of their respective specialties. In this, the series' maiden volume, Dr. Harold G. Koenig, provides an overview of the relationship between health care and religion that manages to be comprehensive yet concise, factual yet inspirational, and technical yet easily accessible to nonspecialists and general readers. Focusing on the scientific basis for integrating spirituality into medicine, Koenig carefully summarizes major trends, controversies, and the latest research from various disciplines and provides plausible and compelling theoretical explanations for what has thus far emerged in this relatively young field of study. Medicine, Religion, and Health begins by defining the principal terms and then moves on to a brief history of religion's role in medicine before delving into the current state of research. Koenig devotes several chapters to exploring the outcomes of specific studies in fields such as mental health, cardiovascular disease, and mortality. The book concludes with a review of the clinical applications derived from the research. Koenig also supplies several detailed appendices to aid readers of all levels looking for further information. Medicine, Religion, and Health will shed new light on critical contemporary issues. They will whet readers' appetites for more information on this fascinating, complex, and controversial area of research, clinical activity, and widespread discussion. It will find a welcome home on the bookshelves of students, researchers, clinicians, and other health professionals in a variety of disciplines.

Is Religion Good for Your Health?

Author : Harold G Koenig
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317971264
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Is Religion Good for Your Health? written by Harold G Koenig and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Religion Good for Your Health? takes you deep into the heart of the ageless debate on the importance of religion and faith to physical and mental health. On the one hand, you will learn about important research findings from cross-sectional, longitudinal, and intervention studies that have demonstrated positive effects of religious belief on both mental and physical health. On the other hand, you will learn how the vast clinical experiences of leading health experts suggest that religion can have negative effects on health. Integral to the book’s exploration of the relationship between health and religion are the trends that have occurred in society over the last century. You will learn about significant demographic changes, changes in health and health care, and shifts in values, attitudes, and religious conviction, all of which have direct implications for health care providers, the clergy, the “baby boomers,” and older adults. From Author Harold Koenig, a leading expert on religion and health who has frequently been interviewed by major broadcasting networks such as ABC, National Public Radio, the British Broadcasting Corporation, NBC, CBS, and “Ivanhoe Broadcast News,” you will also learn about: pathological uses of religion the need for cooperation and collaboration between health and religious professionals studies on the relationship of religious beliefs and practice to physical conditions such as blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, and cancer links between religious behavior and depression, anxiety, and drug use the waning of religion’s influence in America first-hand accounts from patients who have faced painful and/or life-threatening illness As Is Religion Good for Your Health? analyzes the pathological aspects of religion, you will begin to understand how religious beliefs have the capacity to strongly influence people’s lives and their health, whether positively or negatively. Health care providers, public policy experts, religious professionals, medical researchers, and medical students will find the book’s overview of the issues at stake, particularly the implications for our public health care system, crucial to the advancement of health care practice into the next century.

Faith and Health

Author : Paul D. Simmons
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780881460858
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Faith and Health written by Paul D. Simmons and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faith and Health examines controversial issues in medical ethics such as embryo stem cell research, the face transplant, cyborgs and the human and physician assisted suicide. Those struggling with such confusing and controversial subjects will appreciate the insights from ethics, theology, and law the author brings together. Here is guidance for personal or social responses to questions in medicine that affect us all.

Realized Religion

Author : Theodore J. Chamberlain
Publisher : Templeton Foundation Press
ISBN 13 : 1890151831
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Realized Religion written by Theodore J. Chamberlain and published by Templeton Foundation Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Realized Religion includes research that investigates the impact of spirituality in health and healing, faith healing, religion and mental health, religion and life satisfaction, religion and mental disorders, religion and martial satisfaction, the effect of religion on suicide, and the effect of religion on alcohol use and abuse. This book documents over 300 scientific studies published by reputable scientific journals demonstrating that religion has an ameliorating effect on the survival rate of surgical patients, on depression and anxiety, on suicide rates, and on promotion of a healthy lifestyle. Realized Religion presents useful and helpful information to researchers and scholars who seek to understand the subtle connection between healing and spirituality. It will be an invaluable resource for libraries and others interested in the emerging field of spirituality and healing.

Religion and the Health of the Public

Author : G. Gunderson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113701525X
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Religion and the Health of the Public written by G. Gunderson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book proposes a critical theory of the role and place of religion in public health and argues for a programmatic reorientation of these two fields of practice and inquiry to more effectively align religious health assets - widely present in many contexts - and public health services and facilities.

Religion and Health

Author : James Walsh,
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781977783370
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Health written by James Walsh, and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Religion and health have much more intimate relations with each other than is generally supposed. The old-fashioned Anglo-Saxon words 'health' and 'holiness' in their etymology, revealed this relationship rather strikingly. They both came from a common root, 'hal,' or 'heel,' and hale and holy meant originally exactly the same thing, though in the course of time one came to be referred to the body and the other to the soul." -James J. Walsh, M. D. "The nervous and mental diseases of humanity as well as suicide have all increased in proportion as religious belief and practice have declined. Excesses of various kinds have meant ever so much more for the production of ill-health than has work, no matter how hard, or even the inevitable risks of existence. Calm confidence in a higher power means more for health and happiness than any other element in life." -James J. Walsh, M. D. "Valuable as was Dr. Walsh's book 'Health Through Will Power,' this is as much higher in worth, as the subject it treats transcends that in the book which preceded it, and which might be called a preparation for it. In the introductory chapter and the one following we find the strong presentation of his thesis on the everlasting reality of religion. The chapter on Prayer, marked by absence of psychological speculation, treats practically of the naturalness and good sense of the constant habit of prayer, and of the value of prayer in all psychoneurosis....The chapter on the Bible and Health is of especial interest, with its argument that the sanitary laws of the Jews could have been no outcome of human development, but rather of Divine origin....The wide reading, extended experience, and specialized scholarship of the writer certify to the value of anything from his pen, and when we find a work of this kind as simple as a primer and as attractive as a story, we may well offer thanks for the boon. Nobody who values knowledge concerning the mysterious relation between holy living and bodily health should be without this book." -New Catholic World "Dr. Walsh has brought out the elements of this relationship between the conditions now represented by the two worlds. He has shown that the practice of prayer and of sacrifices, and the observance of mortification and of fasting and abstinence, as well as of the holy days prescribed by religion have proved of great value to health....The truth is brought home in a striking and convincing manner, that there is no conflict between science and religion - that is between true science and true religion, because there can be no conflict between truth and truth....Dr. Walsh's books always contain surprises, are always thought provoking, and are always worthy of a prominent and permanent place on the bookshelf of every man who wishes to know the truth." -The American Catholic Quarterly Review "The author quotes from his own experience with patients to show how true religion may dominate pain and continuous suffering....He gives so many instances of work heroically done in spite of suffering that it almost seems as if those enduring it were called to 'active service' instead of ingloriously abiding in barracks...The book will deter many from suffering the will of God, when, in reality, they are yielding to their own inclination in not resisting disease. Fewer persons will put 'Thy Will Be Done' on tombstones, because they will realize, after listening to Dr. Walsh, that the Lord prefers living, healthy persons to diers, and, having realized, will brace themselves to eradicate all that is unseemly in their religion and health." -New York Medical Journal "He shows the godless that men can be as scientific as Pasteur and still retain the faith of a Breton peasant's wife." -The Field Afar

Religion and Prevention in Mental Health

Author : Robert E Hess
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317823036
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Prevention in Mental Health written by Robert E Hess and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the first book which highlights the unique resource of religion in the field of prevention. Until now, religious systems have been a largely undertapped resource of talent, energy, care, and physical and financial assets. Religion and Prevention in Mental Health is a significant new volume that lays a general foundation for preventive work in the religious area. It presents a number of reasons for examining religion as a source for aiding prevention and well-being. The authors dispute the popular notion of religion as damaging to mental health, as well as the idea that religious affiliation is entirely predictive of better mental health. Instead they focus on the framework for living that religions provide which assists believers in anticipating, avoiding, or modifying problems before they develop. For the human service professional willing to build a collaborative relationship with religious systems, this vital book depicts the richness and diversity of religion and shows the interface of religion, well-being, and prevention. Important issues such as the impact of religion on American society and the ethos of mental health and prevention, the historical and contemporary role of the African-American church as an empowering agent and mediating structure for black citizens, the critical roles of theology in determining the attitude of religious systems toward prevention and well-being, the importance of community and personal narratives, and the limitations of religious settings due to their survival concerns and methods to increase their potential to heal are all discussed thoroughly. Through a better understanding of religious settings, programs, and processes, human service professionals can more effectively utilize religion and reach a neglected portion of the population in need of help. In addition, religious leaders, mental health professionals including counselors, social workers, program developers, evaluators, and administrators, and psychologists, sociologists, and anthropologists will benefit from the comprehensive material provided in this timely book.

The Link between Religion and Health

Author : Harold G. Koenig
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198032811
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Link between Religion and Health written by Harold G. Koenig and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to present new medical research establishing a connection between religion and health and to examine the implications for Eastern and Western religious traditions and for society and culture. The distinguished list of contributors examine a series of psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) topics that relate to religious faith and behavior. PNI studies the relationships between mental states and the nervous, endocrine, and immune systems. Among the issues it focuses upon are how mental states, in general, and belief states, in particular, affect physical health. The contributors argue that religious involvement and belief can affect certain neuroendocrine and immune mechanisms, and that these mechanisms, in turn, susceptibility to cancer and recovery following surgery. This volume is essential reading for those interested in the relationship between religion and health.