Gendering religion and health: women’s religio-cultural vulnerability

Beverley Haddad

Chapter 17 in Handbook on Religion and Health, 2024, pp 280-294 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Women’s religio-cultural “healthworld” is not a religious health asset, but a health liability. This reality is most starkly demonstrated in the ongoing vulnerability of (young) women to HIV infection, exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. During this latter pandemic, the role of public health was prophetic as it forged a strategic alliance with religious leaders. Religio-cultural theologies of retribution were not allowed to dominate socio-scientific discourse. Consolidating this prophetic role and this strategic alliance offers the opportunity for new theological horizons to emerge enabling, alongside women’s agency, the possibility of their “healthworld” shifting from being a health liability to a health asset.

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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