Medicine - religion - spirituality : global perspectives on traditional, complementary, and alternative healing / / edited by Dorothea Lüddeckens and Monika Schrimpf

• Pubblicazione: Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript Verlag, , [2018]; ©2018
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 615.5
• Soggetto topico: Medicine - Religious aspects; Mental healing
• Persona (resp. second.): LüddeckensDorothea <1966->; SchrimpfMonika
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Preface and Acknowledgements 7 Introduction 9 Medicalized Healing in East Africa 23 Medical Discourses and Practices in Contemporary Japanese Religions 57 Self-fashioning of the Hereditary Siddha Practitioner 91 Ayurveda and Discursive Formations between Religion, Medicine and Embodiment 133 Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) as a Toolkit for Secular Health-Care 167 Crossing Fields 201 Mapping the Boundaries between Science and Religion 241 List of Authors 273
• Sommario/riassunto: 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?
• Titolo autorizzato: Medicine - Religion - Spirituality
• ISBN: 3-8376-4582-7; 3-8394-4582-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910304146603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Religionswissenschaft