Literature Guide: Health and Religion

 WCIU Journal: Health and Disease Topic

June 29, 2022

Compiled by Timothy Skinner, MLS

(An asterisk indicates an e-book in Latourette Library.)  

Library of Congress Classification

BL 65 .M4  Medicine—Religious Aspects               

BL 325 .H4  Healing Gods                

R 722 – R 722.32  Missionary medicine and medical missionaries

Dewey Decimal Classification

261.561 Christianity and Medicine

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Healing—Religious Aspects             

Healing Gods                         

Health—Religious Aspects

Hygiene, Hindu                                 

Hygiene, Islamic                    

Hygiene, Jewish         

Hygiene, Mormon                             

Jesus Christ—Miracles          

Jews—Medicine

Medicine, Buddhist                           

Pastoral Medicine                  

Spiritual Healing

Periodicals

Journal of Religion and Health                                             

Mental Health, Religion, and Culture

Religion and Health               

Reference Books

Dictionary of Medicine in the Bible and Talmud (2000)

Handbook of Religion and Health (2012)

*Handbook of Religion and Mental Health (1998)

Handbook of Spirituality, Religion, and Mental Health (2020)

Reference Books with Relevant Articles or Chapters

Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics (1998)           

Complete Book of Everyday Christianity (2011)

Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine (1993). Ch. 61: “Religion and Medicine”

Dictionary of Everyday Theology and Culture (2010)

Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels (2nd ed., 2013)

Dictionary of Paul and His Letters (1993)

Evangelical Dictionary of World Missions (2000)

New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology (1986)

Books

*Blasi, Anthony J. 2011. Toward a Sociological Theory of Religion and Health. Leiden; Boston: Brill.

*Chamberlain, Theodore J., and Christopher Alan Hall. 2000. Realized Religion: Research on the Relationship between Religion and Health. Philadelphia: Templeton Foundation Press.

*Coleman, Elizabeth Burns, and Kevin White. 2010. Medicine, Religion, and the Body. Leiden; Boston: Brill.

*Ellison, Christopher G., and Robert A. Hummer. 2010. Religion, Families, and Health: Population-based Research in the United States. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

*Koenig, Harold. 2008. Religion and Health: Where Science and Spirituality Meet. West Conshohocken, PA: Templeton Foundation Press.

_______. 2018. Religion and Mental Health: Research and Clinical Applications. Academic Press.

_______. 2011. Spirituality and Health Research: Methods, Measurements, Statistics, and Resources. West Conshohocken, PA: Templeton Press.

_______. 2013. Spirituality in Patient Care: Why, How, When, and What. 3rd ed. West Conshohocken,, PA: Templeton Press.

_______, and Harvey J. Cohen, eds. 2002. The Link between Religion and Health: Psychoneuroimmunolgy and the Faith Factor. New York: Oxford University Press.

*Lassiter, Sybil M. 1998. Cultures of Color in America: A Guide to Family, Religion, andHealth. Westwood, CT: Greenwood Press.

*Levin, Jeffrey S., and Keith G. Meador. 2012. Healing to All Their Flesh: Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Spirituality, Theology, and Health. West Conshohocken, PA: Templeton Press.

Myers, Bryant L., Erin Elizabeth Dufault-Hunter, and Isaac Voss, editors. 2015. Health, Healing, and Shalom: Frontiers and Challenges for Christian Health Missions. Pasadena: William Carey Library.

*Taylor, Carol, and Roberto Dell’Oro. 2006. Health and Human Flourishing: Religion, Medicine, and Moral Anthropology. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.

*Taylor, Robert Joseph, Linda M. Chatters, and Jeffrey S. Levin. 2004. Religion in the Lives of African Americans: Social, Psychological, and Health Perspectives. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.