Spirituality- A Mind-Body-Spirit Cross-Cultural Perspective on Self-Healing

This book addresses the need for a greater delineation of the relationshipbetween spirituality and health. Its contents are based upon the author'sresearch that presents a more definitive articulation of spirituality's associationwith physical and mental health especially in terms of selectedpersonality traits cultural perspectives religious orientation and spiritualideologies as they pertain to self-healing practices that may not be adheredto by religious epistemologies. The author's comprehensive advanced utilityfor cross-cultural research takes into account the limitations of Westernmethodological traditions and additionally differentiates between beingreligious and being spiritual.