Health, interreligious action, and solidarity

Katherine Marshall

Chapter 12 in Handbook on Religion and Health, 2024, pp 198-210 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The Covid-19 pandemic experience highlights the complex ways in which religious beliefs, practices, and institutions and community and individual health are linked, and the wide gaps in how these links translate into an integrated and cohesive practice. The interconnections have global, transnational dimensions but, with widely diverse religious landscapes and state religious relationships, local realities and thus policy implications vary widely. The goals of health for all reflect ideals of a caring human solidarity. They call for thoughtful, evidence-grounded approaches that bridge traditional separations among sectors (health, development, religion) and build on contemporary appreciations for the significance of the interconnections. The Covid-19 experience offers lessons to build on in planning health system reforms and new insights and approaches to better link the religious aspirations and practice of communities to care for health and wellbeing.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy; Sustainable Development Goals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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