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Exactly where is the common ground between religion and medicine in phenomena described as "religious healing"? In what sense is the human body a cultural phenomenon and not merely a biological entity? Drawing on over 20 years of research on topics ranging from Navajo and Catholic Charismatic ritual healing to the cultural and religious implications of virtual reality in biomedical technology, this text examines these questions about human experience and the meaning of being human. In recognizing the way that the meaningfulness of our existence as bodily beings is sometimes created in the encounter between suffering and the sacred, these ethnographic studies elaborate an experimental understanding of the therapeutic process, and trace the outlines of a cultural phenomenology grounded in embodiment.
| ISBN | 0312293925 | | Pages | 336 | | ISBN13 | 9780312293925
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | St Martin's Press | | Weight (grammes) | 542 | | Imprint | St Martin's Press | | Published in | New York, NY | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Contemporary Anthropology of Religion (Paperback) | | Publication date | 06 Jul 2002 | | Height (mm) | 228 | | Non-book description | ix, 321 p. : | | Width (mm) | 152 | | Library of Congress | 2001046164 | | Spine width (mm) | 21 | | DEWEY | 306.4 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | |
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| | | Credits | | | | | | Introduction | | 1 | | Pt. I | | Charismatic Transformations | | 9 | | 1 | | The Rhetoric of Transformation in Ritual Healing | | 11 | | 2 | | Embodiment as a Paradigm for Anthropology | | 58 | | 3 | | A Handmaid's Tale | | 88 | | 4 | | The Affliction of Martin | | 100 | | Pt. II | | Navajo Transformations | | 139 | | 5 | | Ritual Healing and the Politics of Identity in Contemporary Navajo Society | | 141 | | 6 | | Talk to Them So They Understand | | 165 | | 7 | | The Sore that Does Not Heal | | 194 | | 8 | | Words from the Holy People | | 219 | | Pt. III | | Modulations of Embodiment | | 239 | | 9 | | Somatic Modes of Attention | | 241 | | 10 | | Shades of Representation and Being in Virtual Reality | | 260 | | | | Notes | | 285 | | | | Bibliography | | 297 | | | | Indexes | | 317 |
'...sets a new standard for exploring the cultural, phenomenological, religious and even theological aspects of health and wholeness.' - Amos Young, Religious Studies Review  Be the first to write a customer review
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