Faith and the Pursuit of Health: Cardiometabolic Disorders in Samoa

Jessica A. Hardin

Faith and the Pursuit of Health: Cardiometabolic Disorders in Samoa
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Country
United States
Published
26 October 2018
Pages
202
ISBN
9780813592923

Faith and the Pursuit of Health: Cardiometabolic Disorders in Samoa

Jessica A. Hardin

Faith and the Pursuit of Health explores how Pentecostal Christians manage chronic illness in ways that sheds light on health disparities and social suffering in Samoa, a place where rates of obesity and related cardiometabolic disorders have reached population-wide levels. Pentecostals grapple with how to maintain the health of their congregants in an environment that fosters cardiometabolic disorders. They find ways to manage these forms of sickness and inequality through their churches and the friendships developed within these institutions. Examining how Pentecostal Christianity provides many Samoans with tools to manage day-to-day issues around health and sickness, Jessica Hardin argues for understanding the synergies between how Christianity and biomedicine practice chronicity.

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