Introduction
Section I Theory
1. Religion, Spirituality, and Mental Health: Setting the scene, Alexander Moreira-Almeida and Dinesh Bhugra
2. Western Spirituality: A Historical Epistemology, German Berrios and Ivana S. Marková
3. Conflicts and Complexities: Medical Science, Exceptional Experiences, and the Perils of Simplistic History, Andreas Sommer
4. Can Spirituality be a Scientific Topic And How? A Rigorous But Open Minded Scientific Approach of Studies on Religion, Spirituality and Mental Health, Harald Walach
5. Differentiating spiritual experiences from mental disorders, Leonardo Machado and Alexander Moreira-Almeida
6. The Light and the Bulb: The Psychology and Neurophysiology of Mystical Experience, Etzel Cardeña and Lena Lindström
7. Evidence for the impact of religiosity and spirituality on mental health, Giancarlo Lucchetti, Rodolfo Furlan Damiano, Alessandra Lamas Granero Lucchetti, and Mario Fernando Prieto Peres
8. Mechanisms: How Religion Impacts Mental Health, Harold G. Koenig
9. Sexual minorities and spirituality, Dinesh Bhugra, Cameron Watson, and Susham Gupta
Section II General principles of religions and relationship with mental health
10. Christianity and Mental Health, Alison J. Gray and Christopher C.H. Cook
11. Islam and Mental Health, Ahmed Okasha and Tarek A. Okasha
12. Hinduism, Matcheri S. Keshavan, Bangalore N. Gangadhar, and Ananda K. Pandurangi
13. Principles and practices of Buddhism in relationship to mental health, Malcolm Huxter and Leandro Pizzuti
14. Judaism, Haim Belmaker, Rael Strous, and Pesach Lichtenberg
15. Nonreligion, Atheism and Mental Health, Miguel Farias and Thomas J. Coleman III
16. African Religions, Spirituality and Mental Health Healing Practices, Olatunde Ayinde, Akin Ojagbemi, Victor Makanjuola, and Oye Gureje
17. Spiritual But Not Religious, Bruno Paz Mosqueiro
Section III Clinical Practice
18. Principles of integrating religion and spirituality in mental health care and the WPA Position Statement, Christopher C.H. Cook and Alexander Moreira-Almeida
19. Spiritually and culturally sensitive evidence-based approaches to taking a spiritual history, Larkin Kao and John Peteet
20. Religion, Spirituality in Prevention and Promotion in Mental Health, Arjan W. Braam
21. Positive Psychiatry and Psychology and Spirituality, Simone Hauck and C. Robert Cloninger
22. Spiritually integrated psychotherapy, Marianna de Abreu Costa and David Rosmarin
23. Religious and Spiritual Struggles and Mental Health:Implications for Clinical Practice, Kenneth I. Pargament and Julie J. Exline
24. Spirituality and End of Life Experiences: Meeting the Spiritual Needs of the Dying, Peter Fenwick and Bruno Paz Mosqueiro
25. Fruitful collaborations with religious and spiritual communities to foster mental health on general society examples from around the world, Wai Lun Alan Fung, Victor A. Shepherd, King Yee Agatha Chong, Sujatha D. Sharma, and Avdesh Sharma