Overview
- Assesses health benefits and risk factors associated with nature-based religion
- Provides a wide overview of the complex links between place, spirituality, and health
- Explores the spiritual dimensions involved in the person/place relationship experience and its influence on health practices, behaviors, and community level outcomes
Part of the book series: Religion, Spirituality and Health: A Social Scientific Approach (RELSPHE, volume 7)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Personal Engagements: Spiritual Ties to Place and Well-Being
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Social Resilience: Spirituality and Well-Being Amid Adversity
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Cultural Connections: Sacred Spaces, Tourism, and Well-Being
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Haywantee Ramkissoon, Ph.D., is a Professor at UniSA Business, University of South Australia, and at the College of Business, Law, and Social Sciences, University of Derby, UK, Johannesburg Business School, University of Johannesburg, South Africa and Centre for Innovation in Tourism, Taylor’s University, Malaysia. She has also been in teaching and research roles at Monash Business School, Department of Marketing, Monash University, Australia and the Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics, UiT, the Arctic University of Norway. Her expertise is in Sustainability Research, including Social and Environmental Psychology, Tourism, Marketing and Healthcare. She is recognised as one of the Clarivate Highly Cited Elite Group of Researchers for 2021 and 2022. She is also in Stanford list of World’s top 2% most cited scientists for 2021 and 2022.
Laura E. Captari, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Fellow at The Danielsen Institute at Boston University. Her research explores the developmental and relational impacts of trauma, disaster, and loss, with attention to the intersections of culture, spirituality, and the mind-body connection as potential pathways to resilience and flourishing.
Richard G. Cowden, Ph.D., is a social-personality psychologist and Research Associate for the Human FlourishingProgram at Harvard University. He is broadly interested in psychological, social, and religious/spiritual dynamics that shape adaptive functioning, personal growth, and well-being. Much of his research agenda focuses on topics related to adversity (e.g., suffering), character strengths (e.g., forgiveness), and religion/spirituality (e.g., religious/spiritual struggles), and their implications for health and well-being in diverse cultures and contexts. He has written numerous scholarly articles and book chapters that address various aspects of human flourishing in a wide range of populations, and recently co-authored Place and Post-Pandemic Flourishing: Disruption, Adjustment, and Healthy Behaviors (Springer, 2021).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Place, Spirituality, and Well-Being
Book Subtitle: A Global and Multidisciplinary Approach
Editors: Victor Counted, Haywantee Ramkissoon, Laura E. Captari, Richard G. Cowden
Series Title: Religion, Spirituality and Health: A Social Scientific Approach
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39582-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-39581-9Published: 02 October 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-39584-0Due: 19 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-39582-6Published: 29 September 2023
Series ISSN: 2627-6011
Series E-ISSN: 2627-602X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 288
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Spirituality, Sociology of Religion, Religion and Psychology, Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings