Better Health through Spiritual Practices: A Guide to Religious Behaviors and Perspectives That Benefit Mind and Body

Author Dean D. VonDras

Publisher Praeger

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Author

Dean D. VonDras

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Praeger

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Copyright

2017

ISBN13

9781440853685

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eBook

Grade Level

College Freshman - College Senior

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Overview

An in-depth examination of religious practices around the world and the fascinating science behind how they make us healthier.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Recent Titles in Race, Ethnicity, Culture, and Health Series.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Series Foreword.
Preface: The Prospect of Our Journey.
Acknowledgments.
1: The Religio-Spiritual Context of Lifestyle Practices and Health Behaviors.
2: Hinduism, Jainism, and Sikhism.
3: The Middle Path to Health: The Relationship between Buddhist Practices and Beliefs, and Health Outcomes.
4: Health, Spirituality, and Chinese Thought.
5: Ways of Healing and the Roles of Harmony, Purity, and Violent Rhetoric in Japanese Shinto and Shamanism.
6: Judaism and Health.
7: Christianity—Catholic and Seventh-day Adventist Examples.
8: Islam and Health.
9: Sufism and Optimal Health.
10: Lesser Known Spiritualities: Bahá’í’, Rastafari, and Zoroastrianism.
11: North American Indigenous Spiritualities.
12: The Spirituality of the Eastern Cherokee and Ani’-Yun-Wiya Shamanistic Medicine.
13: Agnostic, Atheistic, and Nonreligious Orientations.
14: Epilogue: Religion, Science, and Health—A Question of Balance or the Space Between?.
About the Editor and Contributors.
Index.
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