[Commlist] Call for chapters - collection on Religion, Spirituality, and Health

Routledge special collection on Religion, Spirituality, and Health.

Call for chapter submissions -- all scholars including MCS welcome to 
submit.
Working title: Wellness amidst experiences of chronicity: A spiritual 
and faith-based exploration Expression of interest of abstract (200 
words) due Sept. 15, 2019
 While the context of the ‘chronic’ condition is most well known as 
medical and treatment oriented, this collection will reflect on chronic 
health and wellness beyond the diagnosis of chronic medical conditions. 
The authors will bring a critical lens for the exploration of cultural 
and daily experiences of various forms of chronic conditions and 
wellness in relation to practices of spirituality and faith. Chronicity 
as a framework, with a focus on the meaning-centered aspects of illness 
experiences over time, will set the stage for this collection, 
considering that chronic conditions draw together developed and 
developing countries, the global North and South, East or West. This 
inter- and transdisciplinary collection invites contributors and leading 
scholars in the cultural and social sciences, medical professionals, 
psychotherapists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, nurses, and 
practitioners of complementary and alternative across the fields of 
anthropology, sociology, psychology, health education, and social work 
to understand, rethink, and transform spiritual and faith-based striving 
in health care. We take as our theoretical point of departure the 
phenomenological and hermeneutic, meaning-making traditions, as the 
co-authors share a concern for the manifold struggles that abound amidst 
living with and management of chronic conditions. This collection is 
innovative in that it explores spirituality and faith in a way that 
doesn’t presuppose benefits or pitfalls, but rather, how people explore 
their own day-to-day practices in the context of chronic conditions. The 
collection is not designed to place value on any specific type of faith 
or spiritual practice, but rather focusses on peoples’ lived experience, 
attending to both the social and individual, structural and existential.


Topics of interest for your submission may include, but are not limited to:
 •	A global focus on practices of spirituality or faith, and how these 
may intersect with cultural and individual experiences of chronic health 
and wellness.
  •	Faith-based and spiritual practices that are transformed, 
questioned or challenged amidst living with chronic conditions; 
practices that may shape or inform embodied forms coping, resistance, 
help-seeking practices, or self-care amidst what has been posited as 
chronicity.
  •	A connection between faith-based and spiritual practices that 
impact or shape the interpersonal domains of social suffering, 
potentially also with a focus on the “social technologies.”
  •	Issues around “quality of care” understood in the spiritual 
contexts of chronicity, including contradictory faith practices between 
clients and professionals.
  •	What is most at stake for people who draw on faith or spirituality 
in their management of chronic conditions, and particularly the moral 
contours of daily experience; and in relation to family and the 
professionals they are seeking help from?
  •	Exploring how spiritual and faith-based resources are mobilized in 
contexts of chronicity for acts of social justice, change, and societal 
transformation? Is this a political endeavor and if so, in what way? 
What can be gained from this through a political sphere?
  •	Peoples’ relationships to temporality and how they may be shaped by 
modes of spiritual and faith-based striving.
  •	Explorations of narrative and how the story about living with 
chronic conditions I told in context of spiritual or faith-based coping?
   Further details:
 The collection editors (details below) have been invited by and spoken 
directly with the content editor at Routledge who has expressed serious 
interest in the project, and has invited us to submit a formal proposal 
once we have chapter contributors confirmed. If interested to contribute 
a chapter to this collection, please submit a 300-word abstract (or 
thereabouts) outlining the basic vision, introduction, methods, results, 
and discussion or conclusion sections (if relevant) of the intended 
chapter, to the collection editors. We are inviting abstract submissions 
from now until September 15th 2019 at which time we intend to complete 
the full proposal to Routledge with contributing author and chapter 
details. We then expect the submission of authors’ final chapters would 
be received in the spring of 2020 and be around 6000-9000 words complete 
with references and accompanying details. We welcome both theoretical 
and empirical contributions, although the priority will be given to 
qualitative pieces that focus on aspects of daily lived experiences of 
spiritual and faith-based practices amidst chronic conditions as loosely 
depicted above. Any further questions can be directed to the collection 
editors.

 About the collection editors:

 Andrew R. Hatala, PhD, is a practicing member of the Canadian Baha’i 
community and a medical and psychological anthropologist with interest 
in cultural psychiatry, spirituality, and health psychology and 
currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health 
Sciences (Rady Faculty of Health Sciences) at the University of 
Manitoba. His published works and research focus on qualitative 
methodologies, mental health, Indigenous healing and epistemology, 
Indigenous nosology of mental illness and disorder, culture and 
spirituality, and resilience and well-being among Indigenous youth 
populations.
  Email: (andrew.hatala /at/ umanitoba.ca)
 Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrew_Hatala
   Kerstin Roger, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of 
Community Health Sciences (Rady Faculty of Health Sciences) at the 
University of Manitoba. Her current research focuses on family and 
community interfacing with informal and formal health care systems 
including topics in aging, chronic illness, spirituality, HIV, and wellness.
  Email: (kerstin.roger /at/ umanitoba.ca)
 Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kerstin_Roger

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