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This is an alphabetical list of books recommended by the Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health, including those sold at the first and second annual meetings of the Society for Spirituality, Theology and Health. Look for or order these books from the Gothic Bookshop at Duke, online, or at your local book store or library.

 

Book List
Blazer, DB The Age of Melancholy: Major Depression and Its Social Origins
Cadge, W Heartwood: The First Generation of Theravada Buddhism in America
Carrette, King Selling Spirituality: The Silent Takeover of Religion
Chase-Ziolek, M Health, Healing, and Wholeness: Engaging Congregations in Ministries of Health
Collins, F The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
Dueck AC, Lee C  Why Psychology Needs Theology: A Radical-Reformation Perspective
Friedman DA Jewish Pastoral Care: A Practical Handbook from Traditional and Contemporary Sources
Friedman DA  Jewish Visions for Aging: A Professional Guide for Fostering Wholeness
Hauerwas, S God, Medicine, and Suffering
Hauerwas, S The Peaceable Kingdom, 2ed.
Hauerwas S With the Grain of the Universe: The Church's Witness and Natural Theology
Hauerwas, S, Stoneking, CB, Meador, KG, Cloutier, D (eds): Growing Old in Christ
Hauerwas S, Vanier J, Swinton J Living Gently in a Violent World: The Prophetic Witness of Weakness (Resources for Reconciliation)
Koenig, HG  Spirituality in Patient Care, 2nd Ed.
Koenig, HG, McCullough M, Larson DB Handbook of Religion and Health
Krause N Aging in the Church: How Social Relationships Affect Health
Levin, J God, Faith, and Health:  Exploring the Spirituality-Healing Connection
MacKinlay E Mental Health and Spirituality in Later Life
McCullough M Beyond Revenge: The Evolution of the Forgiveness Instinct
Pargament, KI Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy: Understanding and Addressing the Sacred 
Schaie KW, Krause N, Booth A Religious Influences on Health and Well-Being in the Elderly
Shuman J, Meador KG Heal Thyself: Spirituality, Medicine and the Distortion of Christianity
Smith C Moral, Believing Animals: Human Personhood and Culture
Smith, C Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers
Swinton, J Raging With Compassion: Pastoral Responses to the Problem of Evil
Swinton, J Resurrecting the Person: Friendship and the Care of People with Severe Mental Health Problems
Swinton, J Theology, Disability and the New Genetics: Why Science Needs the Church
Verhey, A On Moral Medicine: Theological Perspectives in Medical Ethics
Verhey, A Reading the Bible in the Strange World of Medicine
Volck, B, Shuman, J Reclaiming the Body Christians and the Faithful Use of Modern Medicine
Wirzba N Living the Sabbath

 

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