Healing “through God’s grace”: Lived religion in Filipina migrant women’s health in Japan

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

International Studies

Document Type

Article

Source Title

Mental Health, Religion and Culture

Publication Date

1-1-2020

Abstract

Conceptually anchored on lived religion, this paper explores the meanings and experiences of health, illness, and healing among Filipino migrant women in Japan as they intersect with their religion. Likewise, it explores the functions and limitations of religion as migrant women face physical and mental health problems caused by work, marital status, and/or dislocation. Using biographical interviews and ethnography, this paper suggests that religion serves as a material and symbolic resource for making sense of health, illness and healing. As a material resource, it offered tangible, informational, and emotional support. It can however become limiting when personalised meanings and practices of religion frame illness based on morality, promote health misinformation, and delay healing and other health-seeking behaviours. Nonetheless, healing as perceived and experienced by Filipino migrant women involves lived religion in their complex meaning making and negotiated in terms of its physiological, spiritual and emotional effects. © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

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Digitial Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1080/13674676.2020.1806808

Disciplines

Health Psychology | International and Area Studies | Religion

Keywords

Health—Religious aspects; Foreign workers, Filipino--Health and hygiene--Japan; Women migrant labor--Health and hygiene--Japan; Foreign workers, Filipino—Spiritual life; Women migrant labor—Spiritual life

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