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Book review: Toward a Sociological Theory of Religion and Health , written by Blasi, A.J.

Book review: Toward a Sociological Theory of Religion and Health , written by Blasi, A.J. Toward a Sociological Theory of Religion and Health , Leiden/Boston: Brill. isbn 978-90-04-20597-0 The connection between religion and health is without doubt one of the big issues debated (more or less explicitly) in several classical sociological and anthropological works. Nowadays — due to the extent and complexity of the topic, but also its intrinsic transdisciplinarity — a lot of publications address some aspects of this phenomenon, but few of them propose an overall theoretical approach. Choosing a specific disciplinary point of view — the sociological one — this book, edited by Anthony Blasi, takes on the challenge. On the one hand, in fact, the book collects a selection of thematic essays which discuss various facets of this issue; but on the other, it also proposes a “general theoretical orientation to the nexus of religion and health”. People’s religious activities have significant health consequences: this is the core statement made at the beginning of the book. The problem is the lack of mid-level theories, and of a more general theory, able to connect and explain the several empirical findings on this influence. However, as the editor writes, there are two different ways of building theory about not only the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Empirical Theology Brill

Book review: Toward a Sociological Theory of Religion and Health , written by Blasi, A.J.

Genova, C.
Journal of Empirical Theology , Volume 28 (1): 146 – Jun 5, 2015
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0922-2936
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Toward a Sociological Theory of Religion and Health , Leiden/Boston: Brill. isbn 978-90-04-20597-0 The connection between religion and health is without doubt one of the big issues debated (more or less explicitly) in several classical sociological and anthropological works. Nowadays — due to the extent and complexity of the topic, but also its intrinsic transdisciplinarity — a lot of publications address some aspects of this phenomenon, but few of them propose an overall theoretical approach. Choosing a specific disciplinary point of view — the sociological one — this book, edited by Anthony Blasi, takes on the challenge. On the one hand, in fact, the book collects a selection of thematic essays which discuss various facets of this issue; but on the other, it also proposes a “general theoretical orientation to the nexus of religion and health”. People’s religious activities have significant health consequences: this is the core statement made at the beginning of the book. The problem is the lack of mid-level theories, and of a more general theory, able to connect and explain the several empirical findings on this influence. However, as the editor writes, there are two different ways of building theory about not only the

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