Faith and the Pursuit of Health : Cardiometabolic Disorders in Samoa / Jessica 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...

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Bibliographic Details

Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Hardin, Jessica A. (Author)
Corporate Author:	Project Muse
Other title:	Book collections on Project MUSE.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2018]
Series:	Medical anthropology.
Subjects:	Obesity > Samoa. Cardiovascular system > Diseases. Church work with the sick > Pentecostal churches. Church work with the sick > Samoa. Church work with the sick. Obesity. Samoa.