Religion and Healing in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion and Healing in America write by Linda L. Barnes. This book was released on 2005. Religion and Healing in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Americans have long been aware of the phenomenon loosely known as faith healing. During the 1990s the American cultural landscape changed and religious healing became a commonplace feature in our society. This is a look at this new reality.
Faith in the Great Physician
Faith in the Great Physician - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Faith in the Great Physician write by Heather D. Curtis. This book was released on 2007-11-30. Faith in the Great Physician available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This history of evangelical faith healing in nineteenth-century America examines the nation’s shifting attitudes about sickness, suffering, and health. Faith in the Great Physician tells the story of how participants in the divine healing movement transformed the ways Americans coped with physical affliction and pursued bodily wellbeing. Heather D. Curtis offers critical reflection on the theological, cultural, and social forces that come into play when one questions the purpose of suffering and the possibility of healing. Belief in divine healing ran counter to a deep-seated Christian ethic that linked physical suffering with spiritual holiness. By engaging in devotional disciplines and participating in social reform efforts, proponents of faith cure embraced a model of spiritual experience that endorsed active service, rather than passive endurance, as the proper Christian response to illness and pain. Emphasizing the centrality of religious practices to the enterprise of divine healing, Curtis sheds light on the relationship among Christian faith, medical science, and the changing meanings of suffering and healing in American culture. Recipient of the Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church History for 2007
Spirits of Protestantism
Spirits of Protestantism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spirits of Protestantism write by Pamela E. Klassen. This book was released on 2011-06-25. Spirits of Protestantism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Klassen’s book is much more than a first-rate study of how two churches in Canada positioned themselves within the ostensibly parallel worlds of biomedicine and spiritual healing. It is, at its core, an insightful meditation on the relationship between liberal Protestantism and the project of modernity. A must read not only for students of Christianity, but all those interested in the legacies of secularism and enchantment." —Matthew Engelke, London School of Economics
Teaching Religion and Healing
Teaching Religion and Healing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Teaching Religion and Healing write by Linda L. Barnes. This book was released on 2006-10-19. Teaching Religion and Healing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The study of medicine and healing traditions is well developed in the discipline of anthropology. Most religious studies scholars, however, continue to assume that "medicine" and "biomedicine" are one and the same and that when religion and medicine are mentioned together, the reference is necessarily either to faith healing or bioethics. Scholars of religion also have tended to assume that religious healing refers to the practices of only a few groups, such as Christian Scientists and pentecostals. Most are now aware of the work of physicians who attempt to demonstrate positive health outcomes in relation to religious practice, but few seem to realize the myriad ways in which healing pervades virtually all religious systems. This volume is designed to help instructors incorporate discussion of healing into their courses and to encourage the development of courses focused on religion and healing. It brings together essays by leading experts in a range of disciplines and addresses the role of healing in many different religious traditions and cultural communities. An invaluable resource for faculty in anthropology, religious studies, American studies, sociology, and ethnic studies, it also addresses the needs of educators training physicians, health care professionals, and chaplains, particularly in relation to what is referred to as "cultural competence" - the ability to work with multicultural and religiously diverse patient populations.
Medicine - Religion - Spirituality
Medicine - Religion - Spirituality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Medicine - Religion - Spirituality write by Dorothea Lüddeckens. This book was released on 2018-11-30. Medicine - Religion - Spirituality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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?
