Beholden
Religion, Global Health, and Human Rights
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 9 April 2015
- ISBN 9780199827763
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages312 pages
- Size 147x211x27 mm
- Weight 440 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Religion can help (or hinder) global health and health equity today. This book explores the cross-disciplinary intersections of human rights, religious pilgrimage, gift exchange, 19th century American public health, and faith-based assets to address issues of social justice, health economics, humanitarian aid, human rights, theological education, and public policy.
MoreLong description:
Global health-related efforts today are usually shaped by two very different ideological approaches. They either reflect a human rights-based approach to health and equity, often associated with public health, medicine, or economic development activities; or they express religious or humanitarian "aid," usually motivated by personal beliefs about charity, philanthropy, missional dynamics, and/or a ministry of "mercy." The underlying differences between these two approaches can create tensions and even outright hostility that affects and may even undermine the best intentions of those involved. In Beholden: Religion, Global Health, and Human Rights, Susan R. Holman-a scholar in both religion and the history of medicine-challenges this stereotypical polarization through stories designed to help shape a new lens on global health, one that envisions a multidisciplinary integration of respect for religion and culture with an equal respect for and engagement with human rights and social justice. The book's six chapters range broadly, from pilgrimage texts in the Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, and Islamic traditions, to the effect of ministry and public policy on the 19th century poorhouse; the story of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) as it shaped economic, social, and cultural (ESC) rights; a "religious health assets" approach based in Southern Africa; and the complex dynamics of gift exchange in the modern faith-based focus on charity, community, and the common good. The book will appeal to readers interested in global health, faith-based aid, public policy, humanitarian response, liberation theology, charity, gift exchange, and a good story.
Beholden is a rich tapestry of stories deftly woven into a textured examination of religious faith and global health work. The meanings we give to charity, justice, human rights, obligations, and respect- and their material effects- come alive in threads plaited across time and place. Beholden invites us to deepen the moral integrity of global health relations; it should be read by all who care to do so.
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction: Toward a vision of the ought
2. Religious pilgrimage: From 'glocality' to global health
3. Private lens, public health: A reluctant physician in 19th century America
4. From Matthew 25 to Article 25: Why economic, social, and cultural (ESC) rights matter
5. Between Cape Town and Memphis: Religious health assets
6. Don't teach me to fish: What's wrong with gift-charity?
Acknowledgements
Notes
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Index
