Racialized Health, COVID-19, and Religious Responses: Black Atlantic Contexts and Perspectives

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Racialized Health, COVID-19, and Religious Responses: Black Atlantic Contexts and Perspectives explores black religious responses to black health concerns amidst persistent race-based health disparities and healthcare inequities. This cutting-edge edited volume provides theoretically and descriptively rich analysis of cases and contexts where race factors strongly in black health outcomes and dynamics, viewing these matters from various disciplinary and national vantage points. The volume is divided into the following four parts: Systemic and Socio-Cultural Dimensions of Black Health Ecclesial Responses to Black Health Vulnerabilities Public Education and Policy Considerations Spirituality and the Wellness of Black Minds, Bodies and Souls Part I explores ways social and cultural factors such as racial bias, religious conviction, and resource capacity have influenced and delimited black health prospects. Part II looks historically and contemporarily at denominational and ecumenical responses to collective black health emergencies in places such as Nigeria, the UK, the US, and the Caribbean. Part III focuses on public advocacy, particularly collective black health, both in terms of policy and education. The final section deals with spiritual, psychological, and theological dimensions, understandings, and pursuits of black health and wholeness. Collectively, the essays in the volume delineate analysis and action that wrestle with the multidimensional nature of black wellness and with ways broad public resources and black religious resources should be mobilized and leveraged to ensure collective black wellness. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of tables List of contributors Introduction: Black Health, Church Responsiveness, and Transnational Metrics PART I: Systemic and Sociocultural Dimensions of Black Health 1. Racializing Religious Institutions during the COVID-19 Pandemic 2. Racialized Discourses on Disease at Intersections of Canadian and the Caribbean Contexts 3. Racialized Healthcare Inequities Dating to Slavery 4. Cuban Public Healthcare, Economic Scarcity, and COVID-19 Management 5. Black Health, Ethics, and Global Ecology 6. Food Insecurity, Black Churches, and Black Household Vulnerabilities during COVID-19 7. Setswana Medicinal Practices and Tensions with Western Healthcare Perspectives 8. Racism and Clinical Trials of COVID-19, Tetanus, and Malaria Vaccines in Kenya PART II: Ecclesial Responses to Black Health Vulnerabilities 9. The African Methodist Episcopal Church and Its Reckonings with Deadly Plagues, 1793–2020 10. Pandemics, the Rev. Francis J. Grimké, and Life Lessons 11. Collins Chapel Hospital and the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church Responses to Healthcare Disparities in Memphis, Tennessee 12. Black United Methodist Church Responses to COVID-19 13. The Redeemed Christian Church of God’s Responses to Contemporary Health Urgencies in Nigeria 14. The Church of God in Christ, COVID-19, and Black Pentecostal Constructive Engagement 15. Richard Allen, Black Aid Workers, and Civil Rights Lessons of the First Great Epidemic in the United States 16. Caribbean Churches, Capacities, and Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic 17. Black Majority Church Responses to Black Health Urgencies in the United Kingdom 18. COVID-19, Cultural Competency, and Church Responsiveness in Nigeria PART III: Public Education and Policy Considerations 19. The Black Church, Public Policy, and the Challenge of Health Equity 20. Black Mental Health Challenges and Responses by Britain’s Black Majority Churches 21. Cultural and Religious Influences on Genetic Interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa 22. Pastoral Care, the COVID-19 Pandemic, and Oppression in Port-au-Prince, Haiti 23. Black Women’s Reproductive Health, Justice, and COVID-19 Complications in the United States 24. Film as a Pedagogical Tool for Trauma- and Resiliency-Informed Theology and Liturgy 25. Shifting the Tide Toward Health Equity PART IV: Spirituality and the Wellness of Black Minds, Bodies, and Souls 26. Nigerian Women, Mental and Physical Health, COVID-19, and Spirituality 27. African American Palliative Care amid the COVID-19 Pandemic 28. Black Religion, Mental Health, and the Threat of Hopelessness during the COVID-19 Pandemic Index