The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Medicine, and Health

Dorothea Lüddeckens (University of Zurich), Philipp Hetmanczyk, Pamela E. Klassen , Justin B. Stein (no payment details supplied by editorial)

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Routledge
29 January 2024

Religion: general; Illness & addiction: social aspects; Sociology; Anthropology; Medical anthropology

Series: Routledge Handbooks in Religion

The relationships between religion, spirituality, health, biomedical institutions, complementary, and alternative healing systems are widely discussed today. While many of these debates revolve around the biomedical legitimacy of religious modes of healing, the market for them continues to grow. The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Medicine, and Health is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems, and debates in this exciting subject and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising over thirty-five chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into five parts:

Healing practices with religious roots and frames Religious actors in and around the medical field Organizing infrastructures of religion and medicine: pluralism and competition Boundary-making between religion and medicine Religion and epidemics

Within these sections, central issues, debates and problems are examined, including health and healing, religiosity, spirituality, biomedicine, medicalization, complementary medicine, medical therapy, efficacy, agency, and the nexus of body, mind, and spirit.

The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Medicine, and Health is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies. The Handbook will also be very useful for those in related fields, such as sociology, anthropology, and medicine.

Edited by: Dorothea Lüddeckens (University of Zurich), Philipp Hetmanczyk, Pamela E. Klassen, Justin B. Stein (no payment details supplied by editorial)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032116532
ISBN 10: 1032116536
Series: Routledge Handbooks in Religion
Pages: 546
Publication Date: 29 January 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dorothea Lüddeckens is Professor for the Study of Religions with a social scientific orientation at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Philipp Hetmanczyk is a teaching and research staff member of the Department for the Study of Religions at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Pamela E. Klassen is Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto, Canada. Justin B. Stein is Instructor in the Department of Asian Studies, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, British Columbia, Canada.