Racialized Health, COVID-19, and Religious Responses

Introduction: Black Health, Church Responsiveness, and Transnational Metrics; I. Systemic and Sociocultural Dimensions of Black Health; 1. Racializing Religious Institutions during the COVID-19 Pandemic; 2. Racialized Discourses on Disease at Intersections of Canadian and the Caribbean Contexts; 3. Racialized Health Care Inequities Dating to Slavery; 4. Cuban Public Health Care, Economic Scarcity, and COVID Management; 5. Black Health, Ethics, and Global Ecology; 6. Food Insecurity, Black Churches, and Black Household Vulnerabilities during COVID-19; 7. Setswana Medicinal Practices and Tensions with Western Health Care Perspectives; 8. Racism and Clinical Trials of COVID-19, Tetanus, and Malaria Vaccines in Kenya; II. Ecclesial Responses to Black Health Vulnerabilities; 9. The African Methodist Episcopal Church and Its Reckonings with Deadly Plagues, 1793 to 2020; 10. Pandemics, the Rev. Francis J. Grimkei, and Life Lessons; 11. Collins Chapel Hospital and the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church Responses to Health Care Disparities in Memphis, Tennessee; 12. Black United Methodist Church Responses to COVID-19; 13. Redeemed Christian Church of God's Responses to Contemporary Health Urgencies in Nigeria; 14. The Church of God in Christ, COVID-19, and Black Pentecostal Constructive Engagement; 15. Richard Allen, Black Aid Workers, and Civil Rights Lessons of the First Great Epidemic in the United States; 16. Caribbean Churches, Capacities, and Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic; 17. Black Majority Church Responses to Black Health Urgencies in the United Kingdom; 18. COVID-19, Cultural Competency, and Church Responsiveness in Nigeria; III. Public Education and Policy Considerations; 19. The Black Church, Public Policy, and the Challenge of Health Equity; 20. Black Mental Health Challenges and Responses by Britain's Black Majority Churches; 21. Cultural and Religious Influences on Genetic Interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa; 22. Pastoral Care, the COVID-19 Pandemic, and Oppression in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; 23. Black Women's Reproductive Health, Justice, and COVID Complications in the United States; 24. Film as a Pedagogical Tool for Trauma- and Resiliency-Informed Theology and Liturgy; 25. Shifting the Tide Toward Health Equity; IV. Spirituality and the Wellness of Black Minds, Bodies, and Souls; 26. Nigerian Women, Mental and Physical Health, COVID-19, and Spirituality; 27. African American Palliative Care amid the COVID-19 Pandemic; 28. Black Religion, Mental Health, and the Threat of Hopelessness during the COVID-19 Pandemic