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"Your body is God's temple"
— the spiritualisation of health beliefs in multigenerational African American families | | Author(s) | Sharon V King, Elisabeth O Burgess, Makungu Akinyela |
| Journal title | Research on Aging, vol 27, no 4, July 2005 |
| Pages | pp 420-446 |
| Source | http://www.sagepub.com |
| Keywords | Black people ; Multi generation families ; Attitude ; Health [elderly] ; Spiritual characteristics [elderly] ; Qualitative Studies ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | This qualitative study of 17 co-resident, three-generation African American families provides a generational and family level comparison of religion and health beliefs. Four themes emerged from the generational analysis: divine healing, divine healing through doctors, divine healing through health or religious behaviour modification, and acceptance of health outcomes. Three categories of religion and health beliefs - coping, behaviour-focused and multidimensional - emerged from the family level analysis. A grounded theory analysis of the emergent themes suggests that the families affirm God's sovereignty over their health by spiritualising, rather than medicalising, their health beliefs. The families also function as a health maintenance system, transmitting faith-based health beliefs and modelling health behaviour across generations. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060814202 A |
| Classmark | TKE: SJC: DP: CC: EX: 3DP: 7T |
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