Racialized Health, COVID-19, and Religious Responses

Black Atlantic Contexts and Perspectives
Herausgeber: Smith, R Drew; English, Bertis D; Boddie, Stephanie C

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Produktbeschreibung

Racialized Health, COVID-19, and Religious Responses: Black Atlantic Contexts and Perspectives explores black religious responses to black health concerns amidst persistent race-based health disparities and healthcare inequities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9781032102252
• ISBN-10: 103210225X
• Artikelnr.: 69928304

Autorenporträt

R. Drew Smith, PhD, is a political scientist who serves as professor of Urban Ministry and director of the Metro-Urban Institute at the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. He is a founding co-convener of the Transatlantic Roundtable on Religion and Race, a global network of scholars, religious leaders, and activists. His publications on religion and public life include more than eighty articles, chapters, and essays, nine edited books, and four themed academic journal issues. He also holds an appointment as Professor Extraordinarious at the Institute for Gender Studies at the University of South Africa. Stephanie C. Boddie, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Diana R. Garland School of Social Work, the George W. Truett Theological Seminary, and the School of Education at Baylor University where she co-teaches Disrupting Racial Disparities in Health Care. She also is a co-convener of the Transatlantic Roundtable on Religion and Race, a professor extraordinarius in the Institute for Gender Studies at University of South Africa, a faculty associate at the Center for Social Development at Washington University and a fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society. She is coauthor of more than sixty journal articles, chapters, and reports, and of several books and short films. Bertis D. English, PhD, is a professor of history at Alabama State University in Montgomery. He is owner of English Editing Services, LLC; author of the book Civil Wars, Civil Beings in Civil Rights in Alabama's Black Belt: A History of Perry County; and editor of the International Journal of Africana Studies. His scholarly writings appear in state, regional, national, and global publications.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Black Health
Church Responsiveness
and Transnational Metrics; I. Systemic and Sociocultural Dimensions of Black Health; 1. Racializing Religious Institutions during the COVID-19 Pandemic; 2. Racialized Discourses on Disease at Intersections of Canadian and the Caribbean Contexts; 3. Racialized Health Care Inequities Dating to Slavery; 4. Cuban Public Health Care
Economic Scarcity
and COVID Management; 5. Black Health
Ethics
and Global Ecology; 6. Food Insecurity
Black Churches
and Black Household Vulnerabilities during COVID-19; 7. Setswana Medicinal Practices and Tensions with Western Health Care Perspectives; 8. Racism and Clinical Trials of COVID-19
Tetanus
and Malaria Vaccines in Kenya; II. Ecclesial Responses to Black Health Vulnerabilities; 9. The African Methodist Episcopal Church and Its Reckonings with Deadly Plagues
1793 to 2020; 10. Pandemics
the Rev. Francis J. Grimkeì
and Life Lessons; 11. Collins Chapel Hospital and the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church Responses to Health Care Disparities in Memphis
Tennessee; 12. Black United Methodist Church Responses to COVID-19; 13. Redeemed Christian Church of God's Responses to Contemporary Health Urgencies in Nigeria; 14. The Church of God in Christ
COVID-19
and Black Pentecostal Constructive Engagement; 15. Richard Allen
Black Aid Workers
and Civil Rights Lessons of the First Great Epidemic in the United States; 16. Caribbean Churches
Capacities
and Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic; 17. Black Majority Church Responses to Black Health Urgencies in the United Kingdom; 18. COVID-19
Cultural Competency
and Church Responsiveness in Nigeria; III. Public Education and Policy Considerations; 19. The Black Church
Public Policy
and the Challenge of Health Equity; 20. Black Mental Health Challenges and Responses by Britain's Black Majority Churches; 21. Cultural and Religious Influences on Genetic Interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa; 22. Pastoral Care
the COVID-19 Pandemic
and Oppression in Port-au-Prince
Haiti; 23. Black Women's Reproductive Health
Justice
and COVID Complications in the United States; 24. Film as a Pedagogical Tool for Trauma- and Resiliency-Informed Theology and Liturgy; 25. Shifting the Tide Toward Health Equity; IV. Spirituality and the Wellness of Black Minds
Bodies
and Souls; 26. Nigerian Women
Mental and Physical Health
COVID-19
and Spirituality; 27. African American Palliative Care amid the COVID-19 Pandemic; 28. Black Religion
Mental Health
and the Threat of Hopelessness during the COVID-19 Pandemic