ABSTRACT
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. This cutting-edge edited volume provides theoretically and descriptively rich analysis of cases and contexts where race factors strongly in black health outcomes and dynamics, viewing these matters from various disciplinary and national vantage points. The volume is divided into the following four parts:
- Systemic and Socio-Cultural Dimensions of Black Health
- Ecclesial Responses to Black Health Vulnerabilities
- Public Education and Policy Considerations
- Spirituality and the Wellness of Black Minds, Bodies and Souls
Part I explores ways social and cultural factors such as racial bias, religious conviction, and resource capacity have influenced and delimited black health prospects. Part II looks historically and contemporarily at denominational and ecumenical responses to collective black health emergencies in places such as Nigeria, the UK, the US, and the Caribbean. Part III focuses on public advocacy, particularly collective black health, both in terms of policy and education. The final section deals with spiritual, psychological, and theological dimensions, understandings, and pursuits of black health and wholeness.
Collectively, the essays in the volume delineate analysis and action that wrestle with the multidimensional nature of black wellness and with ways broad public resources and black religious resources should be mobilized and leveraged to ensure collective black wellness.
"The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license."
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|70 pages
Systemic and Sociocultural Dimensions of Black Health
chapter 2|8 pages
Racialized Discourses on Disease at Intersections of Canadian and the Caribbean Contexts
chapter 6|9 pages
Food Insecurity, Black Churches, and Black Household Vulnerabilities during COVID-19
part II|90 pages
Ecclesial Responses to Black Health Vulnerabilities
chapter 869|12 pages
The African Methodist Episcopal Church and Its Reckonings with Deadly Plagues, 1793–2020
chapter 11|10 pages
Collins Chapel Hospital and the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church Responses to Healthcare Disparities in Memphis, Tennessee
chapter 13|8 pages
The Redeemed Christian Church of God's Responses to Contemporary Health Urgencies in Nigeria
chapter 14|8 pages
The Church of God in Christ, COVID-19, and Black Pentecostal Constructive Engagement
chapter 15|6 pages
Richard Allen, Black Aid Workers, and Civil Rights Lessons of the First Great Epidemic in the United States
part III|60 pages
Public Education and Policy Considerations
chapter 23|7 pages
Black Women's Reproductive Health, Justice, and COVID-19 Complications in the United States
chapter 24|10 pages
Film as a Pedagogical Tool for Trauma- and Resiliency-Informed Theology and Liturgy
part IV|22 pages
Spirituality and the Wellness of Black Minds, Bodies, and Souls