Recovering religion: practising intersectoral cooperation in a time of cholera. Issue 5 (4th July 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Braley, Matthew Bersagel
• Is Part Of: Development in practice. Volume 27:Issue 5(2017)
• Page Start: 745
• Page End: 749
• Publication Date: 2017-07-04
• Subjects: Social sector -- Health; Technical assistance -- Developing countries -- Periodicals; Economic assistance -- Developing countries -- Periodicals; Developing countries -- Economic conditions -- Periodicals; 338.91091724
• DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2017.1327024
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0961-4524

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Due to social and historical forces resistant to predictions of religion's waning influence in the modern world, responses to contemporary epidemics continue to involve local religious entities and global religious networks. This viewpoint draws on the history of the 1854 cholera epidemic in London to highlight how histories of cooperation between religion and public health can help focus current thinking about the potential for intersectoral cooperation in response to modern epidemics.