Toward a sociological theory of religion and health / / edited by Anthony Blasi.

• Superior document: Religion and the social order ; v. 19
• TeilnehmendeR: Blasi, Anthony J.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Religion and the social order ; v. 19.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction: Sociological Theory On Religion And Health /; 1. Religion And Mental Health: Through The Lens Of The Stress Process /; 2. The Role Of Divine Beliefs In Stress Processes /; 3. Transcendent Experience And Health: Concepts, Cases, And Sociological Themes /; 4. Does Religion Protect Against Psychological Distress Among Chronically Ill And Poor Women? /; 5. Religion And Health In Japan: Past Research, New Findings, And Future Directions /; 6. Religion And Mental Health In China /; 7. Religious Involvement And Latino Immigrant Health /; 8. Stress, Religious-Based Coping, And Physical Health /; 9. Religious Involvement And Religious Struggles /; 10. The Recondite Religious Life Of Health /; Contributors /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 1283161710; 9786613161710; 9004210849
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Anthony Blasi.

Driven by funding agencies, empirical research in the social scientific study of health and medicine has grown in quantity and developed in quality. When it became evident, in what is now a tradition of inquiry, that people’s religious activities had significant health consequences, a portion of that body of work began to focus more frequently on the relationship between health and religion. The field has reached a point where book-length summaries of empirical findings, especially those pertinent to older people, can identify independent, mediating, and dependent variables of interest. Every mediating variable, even if considered as a “control” variable, represents an explanation, a small theory of some kind. However, taken in granular form, as it were, the multiple theories do not comprise mid-level theory, let alone a general theoretical framework. This volume seeks to move toward more general theoretical development.