The Routledge Handbook of Spirituality, Religion and the Medical Humanities

This major new academic volume, The Routledge Handbook of Spirituality, Religion, and the Medical Humanities offers a comprehensive exploration of how spirituality and religious perspectives intersect with health, healing, and the human experience of illness. This book is edited by Kristy Slominski, Adam Powell and Christopher Cook. 

The volume responds to a longstanding gap in scholarship: despite increasing interest in holistic approaches to health, spirituality and religion have often been under-represented within the medical humanities.

This handbook consists of 35 chapters from an international and interdisciplinary range of contributors, organised into 6 parts:

• Religious Studies and Theology in the Medical Humanities: Tensions and Transformations
• The Socio-Spiritual Self
• Culture and the Culturally Mediated
• Space, Place, and Bodies
• Beliefs, Brains, and Behaviours
• Spirituality and Religion in Healthcare: Application and Impact

The handbook is available to purchase direct from the publisher Routledge.

To celebrate the launch of this handbook, we are co-hosting a hybrid book launch event on Friday 13 March which features a panel interview with the editors, followed by an opportunity to network.