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Gendering religion and health: women’s religio-cultural vulnerability

In: Handbook on Religion and Health

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  • Beverley Haddad

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Women’s religio-cultural “healthworld” is not a religious health asset, but a health liability. This reality is most starkly demonstrated in the ongoing vulnerability of (young) women to HIV infection, exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. During this latter pandemic, the role of public health was prophetic as it forged a strategic alliance with religious leaders. Religio-cultural theologies of retribution were not allowed to dominate socio-scientific discourse. Consolidating this prophetic role and this strategic alliance offers the opportunity for new theological horizons to emerge enabling, alongside women’s agency, the possibility of their “healthworld” shifting from being a health liability to a health asset.

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  • Beverley Haddad, 2024. "Gendering religion and health: women’s religio-cultural vulnerability," Chapters, in: James R. Cochrane & Gary R. Gunderson & Teresa Cutts (ed.), Handbook on Religion and Health, chapter 17, pages 280-294, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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