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Toward a Sociological Theory of Religion and Health: 19
Author(s): Anthony Blasi (Author)
- Publisher: BRILL
- Publication Date: 12 July 2011
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004205977
- ISBN-13: 9789004205970
Book Description
This book seeks to involve recognized researchers in the social scientific study of health, medicine and religion, which has burgeoned across the past twenty years, toward more general theoretical development within the field, particularly with respect to the elderly and disadvantaged.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“[B]y sketching the crucial elements of a general interpretative approach and providing empirical analysis of the various dimensions involved, this book surely makes an important contribution to the understanding of the link between religion and health.”
C. Genova,
University of Turin in Journal of Empirical Theology 28 (2015), 146-147.About the Author
Anthony J. Blasi, Ph.D. (1974) in Sociology University of Notre Dame, Th.D. (1986) Regis College/University of Toronto, is Professor of Sociology at Tennessee State University. His books include “”Transition from Vowed to Lay Ministry in American Catholicism”” and “”American Sociology of Religion: Histories.”” He served as President of the Association for the Sociology of Religion in 2001.
