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?
Overview Chapters
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Frontmatter
Seiten 1 - 4 -
Contents
Seiten 5 - 6 -
Preface and Acknowledgements
Seiten 7 - 8 -
Introduction
Seiten 9 - 22 -
Medicalized Healing in East Africa
Seiten 23 - 56 -
Medical Discourses and Practices in Contemporary Japanese Religions
Seiten 57 - 90 -
Self-fashioning of the Hereditary Siddha Practitioner
Seiten 91 - 132 -
Ayurveda and Discursive Formations between Religion, Medicine and Embodiment
Seiten 133 - 166 -
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) as a Toolkit for Secular Health-Care
Seiten 167 - 200 -
Crossing Fields
Seiten 201 - 240 -
Mapping the Boundaries between Science and Religion
Seiten 241 - 272 -
List of Authors
Seiten 273 - 274
18 October 2018, 274 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8376-4582-8
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