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Health, interreligious action, and solidarity

In: Handbook on Religion and Health

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  • Katherine Marshall

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The Covid-19 pandemic experience highlights the complex ways in which religious beliefs, practices, and institutions and community and individual health are linked, and the wide gaps in how these links translate into an integrated and cohesive practice. The interconnections have global, transnational dimensions but, with widely diverse religious landscapes and state religious relationships, local realities and thus policy implications vary widely. The goals of health for all reflect ideals of a caring human solidarity. They call for thoughtful, evidence-grounded approaches that bridge traditional separations among sectors (health, development, religion) and build on contemporary appreciations for the significance of the interconnections. The Covid-19 experience offers lessons to build on in planning health system reforms and new insights and approaches to better link the religious aspirations and practice of communities to care for health and wellbeing.

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  • Katherine Marshall, 2024. "Health, interreligious action, and solidarity," Chapters, in: James R. Cochrane & Gary R. Gunderson & Teresa Cutts (ed.), Handbook on Religion and Health, chapter 12, pages 198-210, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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