| Description |
xvi, 535 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
I. Sites of healing: domestic spaces, public spaces. The cult of the saints and the reimagination of the space and time of sickness in twentieth-century American Catholicism / Robert A. Orsi -- The "Spiritual Healing Project": a study of the meaning of spiritual healing in the United Church of Christ / Bobbie McKay and Lewis A. Musil -- Ritual and magic: two diverse approaches to inner healing in the Cambodian American community / Thomas J. Douglas and Sophon Mam -- Procreating women and religion: the politics of spirituality, healing, and childbirth in America / Pamela Klassen -- Healing into wholeness in the Episcopal Church / Jennifer L. Hollis -- Miraculous migrants to the City of Angels: perceptions of El Santo Niño de Atocha and San Simón as sources of health and healing / Patrick a. Polk ... [et al.] -- II. Healing from structural violence: la cultura cura. "God made a miracle in my life": Latino Pentecostal healing in the Borderlands / Gastón Espinosa -- |
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The gathering of traditions: the reciprocal alliance of history, ecology, health, and community among the contemporary Chumash / Julianne Cordero -- Religious healing among war-traumatized African immigrants / John M. Janzen, Adrien Ngudiankama, and Melissa Filippi-Franz -- Making Wanga: reality constructions and the magical manipulation of power / Karen McCarthy Brown -- "Our work is change for the sake of justice": Hope Community, Minneapolis, Minnesota / Mary Farrell Bednarowski -- Communing with the dead: spiritual and cultural healing in Chicano/a communities / Lara Medina -- Spirituality and aging in the San Francisco Japanese community / Ronald Y. Nakasone -- III. Gendering of suffering and healing. Healing as resistance: reflections upon new forms of American Jewish healing / Susan S. Sered -- Healing in feminist wicca / Grove Harris -- |
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Sexual healing: self-help and therapeutic Christianity in the ex-Gay Movement / Tanya Erzen -- "Jesus is my doctor": healing and religion in African American women's lives / Stephanie Y. Mitchem -- Gender and healing in Navajo society / Thomas J. Csordas -- IV. Synergy, syncretism, and appropriation. Multiple meanings of Chinese healing in the United states / Linda L. Barnes -- Rituals of healing in African American spiritual churches / Claude F. Jacobs -- Complementary and alternative medicine in America's "two buddhisms" / Paul David Numrich -- La Mesa del Santo Niño de Atocha and the Conchero Dance Tradition of Mexico-Tenochtilán: religious healing in urban Mexico and the United States / Inés Hernández-Ávila -- Subtle energies and the American Metaphysical tradition / Robert Fuller -- Taking seriously the nature of religious healing in America / Edith Turner -- |
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V. Intersections with medical and psychotherapeutic discourses. Dimensions of Islamic religious healing in America / Marcia Hermansen -- Health, faith traditions, and South Asian Indians in North America / Prakash N. Desai -- Hmong shamanism: animist spiritual healing in america's urban heartland / Phua Xiong ... [et al.] -- Spirituality and the healing of addictions: a shamanic drumming approach / Michael Winkelman -- The healing genes / Kaja Finkler -- VI. Conclusion. Religion and healing: the four expectations / Martin E. Marty -- Afterword: a physician's reflections / Harold G. Koenig. |
| Subject |
Spiritual healing -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Barnes, Linda L.
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Sered, Susan Starr.
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| ISBN |
0195167953 hardback alkaline paper |
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9780195167955 hardback alkaline paper |
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0195167961 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780195167962 paperback alkaline paper |
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