Faith and the Pursuit of Health: Cardiometabolic Disorders in Samoa

by Jessica A. Hardin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813592925
• ISBN13: 9780813592923
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher