Download PDF: RV Scott Living Christianity By Shannon Craigo-Snell and Shawnthea Monroe Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2009. 194 pages. $22.00. In Living Christianity Professor Shannon Craigo-Snell and Pastor Shawnthea Monroe team up to offer a theological conversation on five distinct topics
Download PDF: Niño Fidencio: De Roma a Espinazo Directed by Juan Farré. Produced by Fondo de Promoción al Cine de Nuevo León; Consejo Para La Cultura y las Artes de Nuevo León; Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía; and the Fondo Para La
Download PDF: The Adventists By Martin Doblmeier. Journey Films, 2010. $19.95. Members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church live as much as ten years longer than other Americans; it is a statistic startling enough to attract the attention of journalists and
The Chinese invasion of Tibet and His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama’s subsequent escape to exile in India in 1959 helped launch the Tibetan Buddhist tradition into an unprecedented encounter with the modern world. As Tibetan Buddhism engages modern science,
Download PDF: Varley Introduction To an increasing degree, ethnographic accounts of childbirth in South Asia examine how clinical facilities, and Labor Rooms in particular, operate at the interstices of mutually exclusive belief sets: one grounded in modes of authoritative
Download PDF: Machinga Introduction When I was thirteen years old, my dad became sick. He was having a hard time sleeping because he was plagued with headaches; he could not concentrate, and his body was weak. I remember my
Download PDF: Lori Carter-Edwards Introduction1 She sits in a chair in an examination room with her tie-back gown on, patiently waiting for the physician to come back to the room to relay the results of her mammogram. She had
Download PDF: Butcher Growing up in the mountains of Southwest Virginia and East Tennessee, I learned two enduring lessons. First, God is mighty and majestic. Surrounded by mountains too big, too old, and too complex for humans to have crafted,
The following video is a conversation between Dr. Gary Gunderson, senior vice president of Faith and Health for Methodist Healthcare, and Reverend Bobby Baker, Director of the Congregational Health Network for Methodist Healthcare. The two discuss the hospital’s role in
Download PDF: Blevins_and_Toler Introduction While there are numerous opportunities to develop new paradigms and shift existing ones in interdisciplinary research in religion and health, there are also challenges involved in such work. One key challenge presents itself immediately in this
Download PDF: Blevins and Toler, Something to Prove? Introduction While there are numerous opportunities to develop new paradigms and shift existing ones in interdisciplinary research in religion and health, there are also challenges involved in such work. One key challenge presents
This film is a daughter’s exploration of her father’s early encounter with Zen meditation. Along with universal life lessons, she discovers the unforeseeable effects her father’s past has had on her family’s struggles with illness. Photo by joostbaptiste, CC0 Public
Download PDF: Harris, Pederson, and Schellinger Introductions Who we are Ann Pederson, PhD Professor of Religion, Augustana College; Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Neurosciences, Section of Ethics and Humanities, Sanford School of Medicine at the University of South Dakota. Mary
Download PDF: Banks Description of the Course Empirical Basis Respondents to the 2009 National College Health Assessment1 report that the top issues affecting academic performance include stress, depression, anxiety, inadequate sleep, worry, and colds/flu, among other health problems. In numerous
Download PDF: Aymer and Pujol Download PDF: Healing Miracles: Biblical Exegesis and Pastoral Theology in the Context of HIV/AIDS (Syllabus) “Healing Miracles” is an interdisciplinary MDiv course that seeks to start a conversation across the disciplines of biblical
Download PDF: Toms, Lloyd, Carter-Edwards, Ellison ABSTRACT This study of an intentional partnership between a coalition of African American faith-based leaders located in rural eastern North Carolina and North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University (NC A&T), a Historically Black
Download PDF: Sabine Henrichsen-Schrembs and Peter Versteeg ABSTRACT While the study of alternative spirituality in postindustrial secularized societies is growing, researchers lack systematic tools to describe and analyze the behavior of adherents. In a qualitative study of yoga practitioners in
Download PDF: de Silva and Dodson_Lavelle ABSTRACT Despite rapidly rising interest in meditation and contemplative practices, the majority of scientific research thus far has focused on mindfulness-based practices within a standard biomedical framework, neglecting more analytical forms of contemplative practice and