IRHAP Publication: 'When Religion and Health Align'

Title:	WHEN RELIGION AND HEALTH ALIGN: MOBILIZING RELIGIOUS HEALTH ASSETS FOR TRANSFORMATION
Editors:	James R Cochrane, Barbara Schmid and Teresa Cutts
Type:	edited book
Publisher:	Cluster Publications
Year:	2011
Description:	These selected essays, originally presented at the African Religious Health Assets Program (ARHAP) International Colloquium in Cape Town 2009, include several cutting edge studies and reflections on the increasingly important interface of religion and public health. As a whole, they reflect ARHAP’s general sensibility: that religious entities and impulses of one kind or another need to be better understood and mobilized for public health. Religious entities commit vast energies and resources to health. How does one encourage, support and leverage that work for the good of all? What does one need to understand and do to align these assets and capacities, tangible and intangible, with public health institutions and interventions in service of the health of all? What do religious leaders and public health leaders need to learn about and from each other in this regard? The essays, embodying a rich tapestry of inter-disciplinary thinkers, researchers and practitioners, address ways of understanding religion and public health, ways of thinking about the necessary leadership, specific work on HIV and AIDS, implications for practice and innovation, and lessons learned from work at the forefront of religion in development.
Download:	Publication Flyer (55KB) Contents page (120KB)
Reference:	James R Cochrane, Barbara Schmid and Teresa Cutts (Eds). 2011. When religion and health align: Mobilizing religious health assets for transformation. Pietermaritzburg: Cluster Publications. ISBN 9781875053919
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"This collection of essays must therefore be seen as a way-station on a much longer journey, one that in many respects is still very close to its beginning. It is meant...to prompt and provoke others to engage with its core concerns. It also reflects the nature of this journey, as one peopled by a wide range of thinkers, actors, practitioners and organisations who, whatever their historical, contextual, disciplinary or practical differences, share some common vision of a world in which health for all becomes something more of a reality than it is" - Cochrane, Schmid and Cutts (Preface), 2011