Religion and Health: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Religion and Health, credited to James Joseph Walsh, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Religion and Health by James Joseph Walsh. Read in English by Larry Wilson; Gillian Hendrie; Owlivia; Simona Rusu; FriedToaster; mleigh; ToddHW; Spen; Misikis; Kathleen Moore In the introductory chapter and the one following we find the strong presentation of his thesis on the everlasting reality of religion. The chapter on Prayer, marked by absence of psychological speculation, treats practically of the naturalness and good sense of the constant habit of prayer, and of the value of prayer in all psychoneurosis....The chapter on the Bible and Health is of especial interest, with its argument that the sanitary laws of the Jews could have been no outcome of human development, but rather of Divine origin....The wide reading, extended experience, and specialized scholarship of the writer certify to the value of anything from his pen, and when we find a work of this kind as simple as a primer and as attractive as a story, we may well offer thanks for the boon. Nobody who values knowledge concerning the mysterious relation between holy living and bodily health should be without this book. - Summary by New Catholic World

Recording facts

• Recording title: Religion and Health
• Author credits: James Joseph Walsh
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 27
• Listed recording duration: 10:35:01

Catalogue topics

• religion
• Christianity
• Christian living
• medicine
• health

Opening tracks: first 24 of 27

1. 00 - Introduction — 13:09
2. 01 - Chapter 1 Part 1 CAN WE STILL BELIEVE? — 27:23
3. 02 - Chapter 1 Part 2 CAN WE STILL BELIEVE? — 29:33
4. 03 - Chapter 2 Part 1 PRAYER — 24:01
5. 04 - Chapter 2 Part 2 PRAYER — 19:29
6. 05 - Chapter 3 Part 1 SACRIFICE — 22:28
7. 06 - Chapter 3 Part 2 SACRIFICE — 21:03
8. 07 - Chapter 4 Part 1 CHARITY — 24:49
9. 08 - Chapter 4 Part 2 CHARITY — 25:35
10. 09 - Chapter 5 FASTING AND ABSTINENCE — 23:48
11. 10 - Chapter 6 HOLYDAYS AND HOLIDAYS — 20:29
12. 11 - Chapter 7 RECREATION AND DISSIPATION — 30:25
13. 12 - Chapter 8 Part 1 MORTIFICATION — 22:55
14. 13 - Chapter 8 Part 2 MORTIFICATION — 22:29
15. 14 - Chapter 9 EXCESSES — 33:47
16. 15 - Chapter 10 Part 1 PURITY — 20:46
17. 16 - Chapter 10 Part 2 PURITY — 16:30
18. 17 - Chapter 11 INSANITY — 24:31
19. 18 - Chapter 12 NERVOUS DISEASE — 27:37
20. 19 - Chapter 13 Part 1 DREADS — 15:19
21. 20 - Chapter 13 Part 2 DREADS — 19:10
22. 21 - Chapter 14 SUFFERING — 22:39
23. 22 - Chapter 15 PAIN — 20:26
24. 23 - Chapter 16 SUICIDE AND HOMICIDE — 29:20

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