Dorothea Lüddeckens / Monika Schrimpf (eds.)

Medicine – Religion – Spirituality

Global Perspectives on Traditional, Complementary, and Alternative Healing

In modern societies the functional differentiation of medicine and religion is the predominant paradigm. Contemporary therapeutic practices and concepts in healing systems, such as Transpersonal Psychology, Ayurveda, as well as Buddhist and Anthroposophic medicine, however, are shaped by medical as well as religious or spiritual elements. This book investigates configurations of the entanglement between medicine, religion, and spirituality in Europe, Asia, North America, and Africa. How do political and legal conditions affect these healing systems? How do they relate to religious and scientific discourses? How do therapeutic practitioners position themselves between medicine and religion, and what is their appeal for patients?

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18 October 2018, 274 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8376-4582-8

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Dorothea Lüddeckens

Dorothea Lüddeckens, Universität Zürich, Schweiz

Monika Schrimpf

Monika Schrimpf, Universität Tübingen, Deutschland

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1. Why did you choose this topic?

Traditional, complementary and alternative healing practices are increasingly popular.

2. What new perspectives does your book offer?

It offers non-normative and social scientific perspectives from the Study of Religion on alternative healing.

3. What makes your topic relevant for current research debates?

The focus on the entanglement of religion and spirituality with medicine adds a new perspective to current debates about secularization and differentiation. Besides, it offers possible explanations of the recent popularity of Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

4. Choose one person you would like to discuss your book with!

Niklas Luhmann.

5. Your book summary in one sentence:

The book analyzes the entanglement of therapeutic, religious and spiritual aspects in contemporary Asian, European, North-American, and African societies.

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»The perspectives and insights presented in this anthology can [...] make a valuable contribution to preventing stigmatising polarisation, pejorative hierarchisation or undifferentiated generalisation.«
Anna Janhsen, Zeitschrift für medizinische Ethik, 68/1 (2022), translated from German

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Author(s): Dorothea Lüddeckens / Monika Schrimpf (eds.)
Book title: Medicine – Religion – Spirituality Global Perspectives on Traditional, Complementary, and Alternative Healing
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Pages: 274
Features: kart., Klebebindung, 2 Farbabbildungen

ISBN: 978-3-8376-4582-8
DOI: 10.14361/9783839445822
Commodity Group: 1541
BIC-Code: HRA JHB MB
BISAC-Code: REL000000 SOC022000 MED000000
THEMA-Code: QRA JHB MB

Release date: 18 October 2018
Edition
Topics: Medizin, Religion
Readership: Study of Religions, Anthropology, Indology, Japanese Studies, African Studies, Sociology, Medicine

Keywords/Tags: Religion, Spirituality, Entanglement, CAM, Traditional Medicine, Medicine, Religious Studies, Body, Care

Medicine – Religion – Spirituality

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Frontmatter

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction

Medicalized Healing in East Africa

Medical Discourses and Practices in Contemporary Japanese Religions

Self-fashioning of the Hereditary Siddha Practitioner

Ayurveda and Discursive Formations between Religion, Medicine and Embodiment

Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) as a Toolkit for Secular Health-Care

Crossing Fields

Mapping the Boundaries between Science and Religion

List of Authors

Dorothea Lüddeckens

Monika Schrimpf