This volume explores the diversity of beliefs and practices around health and healing in minority religions from different perspectives. The contributors include academics from a variety of disciplines as well as members of minority religions.
This volume explores the diversity of beliefs and practices around health and healing in minority religions from different perspectives. The contributors include academics from a variety of disciplines as well as members of minority religions.
Sarah Harvey is Senior Research Officer at Inform, the educational charity based at King's College London. Eileen Barker, OBE, FBA, is Professor Emerita in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She founded Inform in 1988.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: What about my Body? Concepts of Body, Health and Healing in Minority Religions 1. Health and Healing in the Watch Tower Organisation 2. Healing and Holiness in Christian Scientists' Practice: A 21st Century Perspective 3. Reclaiming Eschatology: Healing and a Female Messiah 4. Health and Wealth in Pentecostal/Charismatic Christianity 5. Healing in an African Context 6. Health and Healing in Contemporary Paganism 7. Working with a Body: Flexible Conceptual Models in Contemporary Yoga 8. Healing Narratives in the Jeon-gyeong 9. The Magic of Texts: Religious Healing Among Lubavitcher Hasidim 10. G. I. Gurdjieff on Health and Healing: Hypnotism, Sacred Dances, Diet, Physical Labour, and Drugs 11. Illness as Impurity: Practices for Cleansing and Purifying the Body 12. The Psychology of Belief in and use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) 13. The Fight Against Undesired Health and Healing Practices Labelled As "Sectarian Abuses" in France. Index
Introduction: What about my Body? Concepts of Body, Health and Healing in Minority Religions 1. Health and Healing in the Watch Tower Organisation 2. Healing and Holiness in Christian Scientists' Practice: A 21st Century Perspective 3. Reclaiming Eschatology: Healing and a Female Messiah 4. Health and Wealth in Pentecostal/Charismatic Christianity 5. Healing in an African Context 6. Health and Healing in Contemporary Paganism 7. Working with a Body: Flexible Conceptual Models in Contemporary Yoga 8. Healing Narratives in the Jeon-gyeong 9. The Magic of Texts: Religious Healing Among Lubavitcher Hasidim 10. G. I. Gurdjieff on Health and Healing: Hypnotism, Sacred Dances, Diet, Physical Labour, and Drugs 11. Illness as Impurity: Practices for Cleansing and Purifying the Body 12. The Psychology of Belief in and use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) 13. The Fight Against Undesired Health and Healing Practices Labelled As "Sectarian Abuses" in France. Index
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