This book addresses the need for a greater delineation of the relationship
between spirituality and health. Its contents are based upon the author's
research that presents a more definitive articulation of spirituality's association
with physical and mental health, especially in terms of selected
personality traits, cultural perspectives, religious orientation, and spiritual
ideologies as they pertain to self-healing practices that may not be adhered
to by religious epistemologies. The author's comprehensive, advanced utility
for cross-cultural research takes into account the limitations of Western
methodological traditions and additionally differentiates between "being
religious" and "being spiritual."