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At one level, this book is about the relationship between public health and religion. It is a relationship with deep historical roots that remain much closer to our time than what current intellectual formation and disciplinary training in either public health or religious leadership fully grasps. Reconnecting the two is more important than one might think. One of our major undertakings here, then, is to argue for that reconnection—for the sake of public health and for the best in religious traditions.
The scissors kick was a wonderful way to do the high jump. Until a guy said, “What the heck, I think I’ll go over back first.” He did. The rest is history.
Larry Pray1
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Gunderson, G.R., Cochrane, J.R. (2012). Seeing Differently: Changing the Paradigm of the Health of the Public. In: Religion and the Health of the Public. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137015259_1
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