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Faith and the Pursuit of Health Jessica A. Hardin

Faith and the Pursuit of Health By Jessica A. Hardin

Faith and the Pursuit of Health by Jessica A. Hardin


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Explores how Pentecostal Christians manage chronic illness in ways that shed light on health disparities and social suffering in Samoa. Examining how Pentecostal Christianity provides tools to manage issues around health and sickness, Jessica Hardin argues for understanding the synergies between how Christianity and biomedicine practice chronicity.

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Faith and the Pursuit of Health: Cardiometabolic Disorders in Samoa by Jessica A. Hardin

Faith and the Pursuit of Health explores how Pentecostal Christians manage chronic illness in ways that sheds light on health disparities and social suffering in Samoa, a place where rates of obesity and related cardiometabolic disorders have reached population-wide levels. Pentecostals grapple with how to maintain the health of their congregants in an environment that fosters cardiometabolic disorders. They find ways to manage these forms of sickness and inequality through their churches and the friendships developed within these institutions. Examining how Pentecostal Christianity provides many Samoans with tools to manage day-to-day issues around health and sickness, Jessica Hardin argues for understanding the synergies between how Christianity and biomedicine practice chronicity.

About Jessica A. Hardin

Jessica Hardin is an assistant professor of anthropology at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon. She is the co-editor of Reconstructing Obesity: The Meaning of Measures and the Measure of Meanings.

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CIN0813592925VG
9780813592923
0813592925
Faith and the Pursuit of Health: Cardiometabolic Disorders in Samoa by Jessica A. Hardin
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Rutgers University Press
20181026
202
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