Confluences : religion, health, and diversity in Missouri / Signe Cohen and Rabia Gregory, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cohen, Signe, editor.

Gregory, Rabia, editor.

Project Muse

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Missouri--Religion.

Missouri.

Medicine--Missouri--Religious aspects.

Medicine.

Cultural pluralism--Missouri.

Cultural pluralism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 274 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2025]

Contents:

Religion, diversity, and health in Missouri. Introduction to part I: inequity, healing, and hope / Rabia Gregory ; Religious responses to the cholera epidemics in Missouri / Signe Cohen ; "We have been here before" : influenza and religion in 1918 Missouri / John Schmalzbauer ; "God's wrath and healing grace" : Christianity and the COVID 19 pandemic in Missouri / Rabia Gregory ; The black church and addressing cancer disparities through genetic risk assessment software technology / Crystal Y. Lumpkins, Lynn Miller, Alisdair Philp, Zawadi Twizele, Katie Nelson, Evelyn Cooper, and Garry L. Lumpkins II

Religious diversity in Missouri. Introduction to part II: learning to see the diversity around us / Rabia Gregory ; The Marian Days Festival and ethnic identity formation / Cameron Fenton ; The venerable Father Tolton at Father Tolton High School / Rachel Brekhus ; Seeing the sacred in St. Joseph museums : a basket made by small hands / Tessi Muskrat.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Baltimore, MD Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from digital title page (EBSCOhost, viewed May 20, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

0826275109

9780826275103

Publisher Number:

40032832165

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.