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Religion, Spirituality, and Public Health focuses on exploring the role of different 'ways of knowing' or arriving at truth, i.e. epistemes, particularly those found in religious and alternative health milieus. While biomedical solutions offer a dominant narrative, these are articulated differently in global contexts. Moreover, individuals often draw upon alternative framings that are sometimes oppositional to and at other times engaged with directives from medical and governmental authorities.
The focus of this volume is worldviews and epistemes that are often marginalised or rejected in dominant discourses — from shamanism in Korea to African Pentecostalism in Britain, and from global online 'AntiVax' narratives to traditional Siddha medicine in South India. Detailed case studies explore the contested, competing and strategically aligned relationships between mainstream and marginal epistemes; between religious healing, spirituality and biomedicine; and between politics and belief. These explorations promote greater insight into how marginalised religious epistemes are employed. Which beliefs and practices are drawn upon to create meaningful and effective responses? And how can we better understand the depth and breadth of these reactions to design more successful public health strategies for future global health crises?
Contents
Section 1. Nuancing Concepts in Health Epistemology 1. Introduction: Complementary and Competing Epistemes - Religion, Science and Truth in a Healthcare Crisis Suzanne Newcombe and Karen O'Brien-Kop 2. Health Beliefs and Embodied Rationalities: A Pluriversal Philosophy of Lived Religion Karen O'Brien-Kop (King's College London, UK)
Section 2. Competing Ontologies: Elasticity of Truth and Meaning
3. Religion, Spirituality, Episteme: Transreligious Epistemologies in Health, Wellbeing and Covid-19 Eugenia Roussou (Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal) 4. Trust and Doubt in the Internet Age: QAnon, Vaccine Hesitancy, and the Politics of Belief Quinton Deeley (King's College London, UK)
Section 3. Power, Authority and Contested Truths: Belief and Public Health
5. Experience, Knowledge and Expertise: Traditional Medicine and Infectious Fevers in Contemporary India V Sujatha (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) 6. Iran's Clerical Power and Modern Medicine in the Age of Covid-19 Hormoz Ebrahimnejad (Southampton, UK)
Section 4. Pragmatic Complementarity: Healing and Marginalised Epistemologies
7. Pentecostal Africans and Divine Healing in 'Secular' Britain Abel Ugba (Leeds, UK) 8. COVID-19 and the Understanding of Illnesses in Urban Korean musok Liora Sarfati (Tel Aviv, Israel) 9. Spiritual Technologies: Afro-Brazilian Religious Epistemologies and Healing During Covid Joana Bahia (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Section 5. Bridging Strategies: Experience and Biomedical Research
10. Placebo Effects, Qi, and Intention: How Biomedical Hegemony Polices Competing Paradigms Kin Cheung (Moravian, USA) 11. Daoist Meditation as Guided Framework in Psychedelic Self-Care and Therapy Dominic Steavu (Santa Barbara, USA) 12. The importance of Interrogating the Experiential Episteme: Yoga, Indian Medicine and Rhetorical Strategies of Epistemic Capital Suzanne Newcombe (Open University, UK) 13. Epistemes, Epistemologies and Public Health: Some Distinctions Ramprasad Chakravarthi (Lancaster, UK)
