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Technological change in healthcare has led to huge improvements in health services        and the health status of populations. It is also pinpointed as the main driver of        healthcare expenditure. Although offering remarkable benefits, changes in technology        are not free and often entail significant financial, as well as physical or...

This volume collects essays under four categories: religious traditions, religious        life, emotional states, and historical and theoretical perspectives. These essays        describe the ways in which emotions have played a role in various world religions,        and analyze the manner in which key components of religious life -- ritual,...

Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth CenturyIn The Rise of Liberal Religion Matthew Hedstrom tells the story of how, beginning in the 1920s, American religious leaders joined forces with the publishing industry in an attempt to form a ''spiritual center''--a set of widely accepted religious ideas, practices, and presuppositions...

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