Faith, health, and healing in African American life
By: edited by Stephanie Y. Mitchem and Emilie M. Townes.
Contributors: Mitchem, Stephanie Y., 1950-; Townes, Emilie Maureen, 1955-
Series: Religion, health, and healing
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780275993757
Subjects: Spiritual healing -- United States; Healing -- Religious aspects; African Americans -- Religion
Description: "This book offers a better understanding of the varieties of religiously based approaches to healing and alternative models of healing and health found in black communities in the United States. Contributors address the communal aspects of faith and health and explore the contexts in which individuals make choices about their health, the roles institutions play in shaping these decisions, and the practices individuals engage in when seeking better health or coping with the health they have. By paying attention to the role of faith and spirit, the book offers a fuller sense of the varieties of ways black health and healthcare are perceived and addressed."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ancestral songs; title: Natural/supernatural : African American hoodoo narratives of sickness and healing / Yvonne Chireau; title: Holistic health and healing : "environmental racism and ecological justice" / Dwight N. Hopkins; title: Health and healing across the diaspora; title: Bodies in time and the healing of spaces : religion, temporalities, and health / Charles H. Long; title: Spiritual illness and healing : "if the Lord wills" / Arvilla Payne-Jackson; title: The arts of ritual and practice; title: The marking of the body, memory, and the meaning of suffering in Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata / Carolyn M. Jones; title: Just awailing and aweeping : grief, lament, and hope as we face the end of life / Emilie M. Townes; title: Honoring the body : ritual of breath and breathing / C. S'thembile West; title: Analyzing social realities; title: The destruction of Aunt Sster's house : faith, health, and healing in the African American community / Terri Baltimore and Mindy Thompson Fullilove; title: The unspoken, the spoken, and affirmed : meanings of healing, same gender-loving African Americans, and Black churches / Linda L. Barnes; title: Finding/making wellness; title: "Seeking help for the body in the well being of the soul" / Rosemary Gooden; title: Too old for the club, but always at home in the club : health, spirituality, and social support among adult Black gay men in Oakland's Cable Reef / Mark Wilson; title: Spiritual wellness in the lives of African American women / Stephanie Y. Mitchem.