The Routledge Handbook of Spirituality, Religion, and the Medical Humanities

Introduction
Kristy L. Slominski, Adam J. Powell, and Christopher C. H. Cook

Part I. Religious Studies and Theology in the Medical Humanities: Tensions and Transformations

1. The Line of Beauty: Religion, Medicine, and the Humanities
Laurie Zoloth and Ranana Dine

2. The Politics of Life and Death: The Medical Humanities and Religion in Public Health
John Blevins

3. Mystical Theology and the Phenomenology of Health
Hannah Lucas

4. How May the Medical/Scientific Investigation of Spiritual Experiences Impact Religious Discourse and Theology?
Humberto Schubert Coelho and Alexander Moreira-Almeida

5. Toward Shared Meaning: How Resilience Uncovers and Reshapes Transdisciplinary Common Ground
Nathan H. White

6. Medical Anthropology and New Testament Texts: Examining the Use of the Disease-Illness and Curing-Healing Distinctions in New Testament Scholarship
Louise A. Gosbell

Part II. The Socio-Spiritual Self

7. Medieval Visionary Writing and the Spiritual Self: Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe
Corinne Saunders

8. Dividuality and Death: Identity, Wellbeing, and Grief in Western and Non-Western Thought
Douglas Davies

9. American Muslim Identities at the Intersection of Religion and Health
Lance D. Laird

10. Methods of Wellbeing: Amplifying the Culture and Experiences of Working-Class Clergy in the Church of England
Alex D. J. Fry and Sharon Jagger

11. Revisiting Ars Moriendi: End-of-Life Narratives, Spiritual Meaning, and Legacy-Making in West-European End-of-Life Care
Zoë Ghyselinck

Part III. Culture and the Culturally Mediated

12. Rituals and Cultural Expressions of Health During Pandemics in East Africa: COVID-19 Control in Kenya
Benson A. Mulemi

13. Navigating the Counters of Religion vis-à-vis Abortion and Contraception in Contemporary Iran: A Sociological Approach
Hossein Godazgar

14. Jewish Bioethics: Arguments, Persuasions and Histories
Laurie Zoloth and Ranana Dine

15. Himalayan Buddhist Views on Women's Health and Wellness
Karma Lekshe Tsomo

16. Health Sermons in National Negro Health Week
Jamil W. Drake

17. Importance of Heat Revived: Premodern Medical Beliefs on Health and Gender in the East and West
Minji Lee

Part IV. Space, Place, and Bodies

18. Producing Healing Spaces for Body and Soul in Byzantine Hospitals
Jonathan Zecher

19. Nineteenth-Century British Asylum Chapels: Healing Spaces of Worship
Ute Oswald

20. Being and Becoming 'At Home': Place and Time in End-of-Life Care
Maria Bouri

21. Sitting With Grief: Towards an Infrastructure of Intimacy on the Oncology Unit
Doria E. Charlson

22. Lee Jema’s Sasang Constitutional Medicine and Its Influence on Contemporary Dietary Therapy in South Korea
Hajung Lee

23. Dreaming for Her Daughter: Surrogacy and the Silent Subject in The Miracles of St. Artemios
Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen

Part V. Beliefs, Brains, and Behaviours

24. Sacred Moments for Health and Wellbeing
Kathleen C. Pait, Kenneth I. Pargament, and Julie J. Exline

25. Christian Beliefs About Mental Ill-health
Anthea Colledge and Anastasia (Tasia) Philippa Scrutton

26. R/S as a Meaning-making System: The Embodied Self in a Relational Environment
Kevin S. Seybold

27. Military Moral Injury and the Importance of Christian Theologies of Guilt, Forgiveness, and Hope in Preventing Negative Outcomes
Brian Powers

28. Spirituality, Religion, and Recovery from Addictions
Wendy Dossett

Part VI. Spirituality and Religion in Healthcare: Application and Impact

29. Inclusive Spirituality or Particular Religion? Contrasting Approaches to Religion and Spirituality Education and Formation in American Medical Education
Warren Kinghorn

30. Cultural Humility: A Mindset for Excellent Healthcare
Swasti Bhattacharyya

31. “Making It Known to Your People”: Speaking and Acting Cancer in the Contemporary Diné World
Maureen Schwarz

32. Integration of Spirituality in Mental Health Care in Brazil: The Case of Spiritism
Alexander Moreira-Almeida and Marcelo Saad

33. Integrative Spiritual Care for Mental Health Concerns: Lessons from an Intensive Chaplaincy Training Program
Jennifer Wortmann, Jason Nieuwsma, and Keith G. Meador

34. Spiritual Care in End-of-Life Care: A Challenge For All Health Care Professionals
Marie-Jose Gijsberts

35. Epilogue
Angela Woods

Biography

Kristy L. Slominski is an Associate Professor of Religion, Science, and Health in Religious Studies at the University of Arizona.

Adam J. Powell is a Lecturer in Medical Humanities at the Institute for Medical Humanities and the Department of Theology & Religion at Durham University.

Christopher C. H. Cook is an Emeritus Professor of Spirituality, Theology and Health, and former Director for the Centre for Spirituality, Theology & Health at Durham University.