| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 259 pages.) |
| Series |
Religion and Spirituality |
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Religion and spirituality series.
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| Contents |
Spirituality-religiosity as a clinical therapeutic resource : Historical trajectory and current state of the art / Silvia Cristina Borragini Abuchaim, Luis Garcia Alonso and Rita Maria Lino Tarcia -- Relationships between religiosity, obesity, lifestyle behaviors, and co-morbidities, Part I: A literature review / Jennifer A. Boisvert and W. Andrew Harrell -- Relationships between religiosity, obesity, lifestyle behaviors, and co-morbidities, Part II: A quantitative study / Jennifer A. Boisvert and W. Andrew Harrell -- Associations of religiosity with optimism, physical and mental health in Egyptian college students / Ahmed M. Abdel-Khalek -- The health assessment as a moderator in the relationship between the religious meaning system, personal meaning profile and attitude towards death among Polish older adults / Pawel Brudek, Dariusz Krok, Marcin Sfikowski and Stanislawa Steuden -- Religiosity and illness acceptance in cancer patients : The mediating role of coping styles / Dariusz Krok, Pawel Brudek and Ewa Telka -- Dreams and the influence of the belief in life after death on the well-being and construction of meaning in parental bereavement / Natasha Torlay Parente and Denise Gimenez Ramos -- The old-new view of consciousness : A review of philosophical and scientific approaches to consciousness / Rejane Spiegelberg-Planer -- Spiritism and medicine : Experiences from the Brazilian spiritist medical model for a paradigm shift in healthcare / Marcelo Saad and Roberta de Medeiros |
| Summary |
"By the last 3 decades, consistent scientific research has proved that the spiritual-religious dimension is strongly related to human health. Since then, this field and its applications are progressively growing and developing, through: psycho-neuro-immunological-endocrine research; curricular disciplines on medical schools; the bio-psycho-social-spiritual approach as standard for patient-centered integrative healthcare; complementary therapies derived from spiritual traditions became valuable allies; hospitals developing policies to respect spiritual values and necessities; faith-based interventions cooperating with psychosocial initiatives. Each of these movements meets the patients' demands for a comprehensive healthcare with a human approach. However, most healthcare professionals were not educated within the view derived from recent research associating religiosity and health. At the other hand, clergymen tend to receive little or none information about health issues during their theological graduation. Notwithstanding progress in including the religious dimension in the clinical context, there are still many significant obstacles for a real transformation. In this context, "An Examination of Religiosity - Influences, Perspectives and Health Implications" aspires to disseminate the ideal form of clinical healthcare, based on the best available scientific evidence. This work does not have the goal of being exhaustive, but rather aims to be a reliable reference to accompany a paradigm shift. The chapters are original manuscripts of high-standard methodological quality, selected among authors from Austria, Brazil, Egypt, Poland, and the United States. The book starts with a historical trajectory and the current state-of-the-art of spirituality-religiosity as a clinical therapeutic resource. The following chapters explore the relationships between spirituality and religiosity in the areas of physical and mental health in many populations and groups: the general population, college students, older adults, cancer patients, and bereaved parents. The final chapters bring intriguing and challenging models about phenomena involving the nonlocal mind and the brain-independent consciousness"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Psychology and religion.
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Spirituality -- Health aspects
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Religion and Psychology
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Psychology and religion
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Spirituality -- Health aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Saad, Marcelo, editor
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De Medeiros, Roberta, editor
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9781536155785 (electronic bk) |
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1536155780 (electronic bk) |
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