Religion and Public Health
The paper begins by acknowledging several ways in which religious beliefs and behavior have had a negative impact on people's physical and mental health; fanatical violence, mortifying asceticism, and oppressive traditionalism (e.g., sexism) are mentioned. Three areas of positive influence are...
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Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V.
[1999]
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Journal of religion and health
Jahr: 1999, Band: 38, Heft: 1, Seiten: 15-26 |
weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Public Health
B Negative Impact B Positive Influence B Mental Health B Community Health |
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Zusammenfassung: | The paper begins by acknowledging several ways in which religious beliefs and behavior have had a negative impact on people's physical and mental health; fanatical violence, mortifying asceticism, and oppressive traditionalism (e.g., sexism) are mentioned. Three areas of positive influence are explored: 1) the role of religious practices in personal health; 2) the impact of social ministries on community health, and 3) the complementarity of religious ideas of salvation with medical conceptions of health in contemporary conceptions of human well-being. That religion mediates between the social and individual dimensions of well-being is a unifying theme of the paper. |
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ISSN: | 1573-6571 |
Enthält: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and health
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1023/A:1022959731396 |