Introduction Section I Theory 1: Alexander Moreira-Almeida and Dinesh Bhugra: Religion, Spirituality, and Mental Health: Setting the scene 2: German Berrios and Ivana S. Marková: Western Spirituality: A Historical Epistemology 3: Andreas Sommer: Conflicts and Complexities: Medical Science, Exceptional Experiences, and the Perils of Simplistic History 4: Harald Walach: Can Spirituality be a Scientific Topic And How? A Rigorous But Open Minded Scientific Approach of Studies on Religion, Spirituality and Mental Health 5: Leonardo Machado and Alexander Moreira-Almeida: Differentiating spiritual experiences from mental disorders 6: Etzel Cardeña and Lena Lindström: The Light and the Bulb: The Psychology and Neurophysiology of Mystical Experience 7: Giancarlo Lucchetti, Rodolfo Furlan Damiano, Alessandra Lamas Granero Lucchetti, and Mario Fernando Prieto Peres: Evidence for the impact of religiosity and spirituality on mental health 8: Harold G. Koenig: Mechanisms: How Religion Impacts Mental Health 9: Dinesh Bhugra, Cameron Watson, and Susham Gupta: Sexual minorities and spirituality Section II General principles of religions and relationship with mental health 10: Alison J. Gray and Christopher C.H. Cook: Christianity and Mental Health 11: Ahmed Okasha and Tarek A. Okasha: Islam and Mental Health 12: Matcheri S. Keshavan, Bangalore N. Gangadhar, and Ananda K. Pandurangi: Hinduism 13: Malcolm Huxter and Leandro Pizzuti: Principles and practices of Buddhism in relationship to mental health 14: Haim Belmaker, Rael Strous, and Pesach Lichtenberg: Judaism 15: Miguel Farias and Thomas J. Coleman III: Nonreligion, Atheism and Mental Health 16: Olatunde Ayinde, Akin Ojagbemi, Victor Makanjuola, and Oye Gureje: African Religions, Spirituality and Mental Health Healing Practices 17: Bruno Paz Mosqueiro: Spiritual But Not Religious Section III Clinical Practice 18: Christopher C.H. Cook and Alexander Moreira-Almeida: Principles of integrating religion and spirituality in mental health care and the WPA Position Statement 19: Larkin Kao and John Peteet: Spiritually and culturally sensitive evidence-based approaches to taking a spiritual history 20: Arjan W. Braam: Religion, Spirituality in Prevention and Promotion in Mental Health 21: Simone Hauck and C. Robert Cloninger: Positive Psychiatry and Psychology and Spirituality 22: Marianna de Abreu Costa and David Rosmarin: Spiritually integrated psychotherapy 23: Kenneth I. Pargament and Julie J. Exline: Religious and Spiritual Struggles and Mental Health:Implications for Clinical Practice 24: Peter Fenwick and Bruno Paz Mosqueiro: Spirituality and End of Life Experiences: Meeting the Spiritual Needs of the Dying 25: Wai Lun Alan Fung, Victor A. Shepherd, King Yee Agatha Chong, Sujatha D. Sharma, and Avdesh Sharma: Fruitful collaborations with religious and spiritual communities to foster mental health on general society examples from around the world
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