Health and Healing in Minority Religions
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Health and Healing in Minority Religions

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Health and Healing in Minority Religions

About this book

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. The introductory chapter focuses on the metaphors and meanings that religions use to indicate their understandings of the body and its boundaries and concepts of health and healing. Chapters follow on the concepts of health and healing in the Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Science, Panacea Society, Pentecostal Christianity, Paganism, Lubavitcher Hasidim and Daesoon Jinrihoe, amongst others. Other chapters focus on contemporary yoga, the Gisu of Uganda, the psychology of believers in alternative medicine and the French government's opposition to alternative healing practices. The book will be useful for academics and students of religious studies, especially those interested in minority religions and alternative healing practices.

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Yes, you can access Health and Healing in Minority Religions by Sarah Harvey,Eileen Barker in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Medical Theory, Practice & Reference. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Figures
  9. Contributors
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. Introduction: What about My Body? Concepts of Body, Health and Healing in Minority Religions
  12. 1 Health and Healing in the Watch Tower Organisation
  13. 2 Healing and Holiness in Christian Scientists’ Practice
  14. 3 Reclaiming Eschatology: Healing and a Female Messiah
  15. 4 Health and Wealth in Pentecostal/Charismatic Christianity
  16. 5 Healing in an African Context
  17. 6 Health and Healing in Contemporary Paganism
  18. 7 Working with a Body: Flexible Conceptual Models in Contemporary Yoga
  19. 8 Healing Narratives in the Jeon-gyeong
  20. 9 The Magic of Texts: Religious Healing among Lubavitcher Hasidim
  21. 10 G. I. Gurdjieff on Health and Healing: Hypnotism, Sacred Dances, Diet, Physical Labour, and Drugs
  22. 11 Illness as Impurity: Practices for Cleansing and Purifying the Body
  23. 12 The Psychology of Belief in and Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)
  24. 13 The Fight against Undesired Health and Healing Practices Labelled as “Sectarian Abuses” in France
  25. Index