Toward a sociological theory of religion and health /
Driven by funding agencies, empirical research in the social scientific study of health and medicine has grown in quantity and developed in quality. When it became evident, in what is now a tradition of inquiry, that people 's religious activities had significant health consequences, a portion...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2011.
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Colección: | Religion and the social order ;
v. 19. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Driven by funding agencies, empirical research in the social scientific study of health and medicine has grown in quantity and developed in quality. When it became evident, in what is now a tradition of inquiry, that people 's religious activities had significant health consequences, a portion of that body of work began to focus more frequently on the relationship between health and religion. The field has reached a point where book-length summaries of empirical findings, especially those pertinent to older people, can identify independent, mediating, and dependent variables of interest. Every. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 276 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: | 9789004210844 9004210849 1283161710 9781283161718 |