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

ISBN-13: 9780367489120 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 270 str.

Andrew R. Hatala; Kerstin Roger

Opis

This book explores how people draw upon spiritual, religious, or faith-based practices to support their mental wellness amidst forms of chronicity

Spis treści

1. Chronicity, mental wellness, and spirituality: An introduction (Kerstin Roger and Andrew R. Hatala);  2. Religiosity and spirituality in mental health contexts: Perceptions of psychologists and chaplains (Marta Helena de Freitas, Evelyn Figueira Lima Ruas and Emmanuel Ifeka Nwora);  3. Responding with Anishinaabek values: Understanding the importance of living as a spiritual being for mental wellness (Leslie McGregor and Gerald Patrick McKinley);  4. Tradition and modernity in Somali experiences of spirit possession: An ethnographic exploration-Aaron Moratz);  5. Politics and aesthetics of care: Chronic affliction and spiritual healing in Brazilian Kardecism (Helmar Kurz);  6. Nourishing exchanges: Care, love, and chronicity in Lourdes (Sarah Goldingay, Paul Dieppe, Sara Warber and Emmylou Rahtz);  7. Miyo-wîcêhetowin in the city: Indigenous youth spirituality, good ancestors, and mental wellness through healing journeys on the land (Darrien Morton, Kelley Bird-Naytowhow and Andrew Hatala);  8. Psychosis, spiritual crisis, and narrative transformation: An ethnography of spiritual peer-support networks in the United Kingdom (Raphaëlle Remy-Fischler);  9. Prayer camps, healing, and the management of chronic mental illness in Ghana: A qualitative phenomenological inquiry (Francis Benyah);  10. "God takes care of it": Spiritual practices and mental wellness of people living with type 2 diabetes in Belize (Lindsay Allen, Lucia Ellis and Andrew Hatala);  11. Cultures of wellness and recovery: Exploring religion and chronicity in relation to severe mental illness (G. Eric Jarvis, Rob Whitley and Marie Nathalie LeBlanc);  12. Global mental wellness and spiritual geographies of care: Concluding remarks (Andrew R. Hatala and Kerstin Roger)