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Religion and Healing in America

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ISBN-10: 0195167961

ISBN-13: 9780195167962

Edition: 2004

Authors: Linda L. Barnes, Susan S. Sered

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Throughout much of the modern era, faith healing received attention only when it came into conflict with biomedical practice. During the 1990s, however, American culture changed dramatically and religious healing became a commonplace feature of our society. Increasing numbers of mainstream churches and synagogues began to hold held 'healing services' and 'healing circles.' The use of complementary and alternative therapies-some connected with spiritual or religious traditions-became widespread, and the growing hospice movement drew attention to the spiritual aspects of medical care. At the same time, changes in immigration laws brought to the United States new cultural communities, each…    
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List price: $56.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/30/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 552
Size: 9.09" wide x 5.98" long x 1.69" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

Linda L. Barnes is Director of the Masters Program in Medical Anthropology and Cross-Cultural Practice, Division of Graduate Medical Sciences at Boston University School of Medicine. She holds a joint appointment as Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at BUSM, and in the Division of Religious and Theological Studies at Boston University.

Introduction
The cult of the saints and the reimagination of the space and time of sickness in twentieth-century American Catholicism
The "spiritual healing project" : a study of the meaning of spiritual healing in the United Church of Christ
Ritual and magic : two diverse approaches to inner healing in the Cambodian American community
Procreating women and religion : the politics of spirituality, healing, and childbirth in America
Healing into wholeness in the Episcopal church
Miraculous migrants to the City of Angels : perceptions of El Santo Nino de Atocha and San Simon as sources of health and healing
"God made a miracle in my life" : Latino Pentecostal healing in the borderlands
The gathering of traditions : the reciprocal alliance of history, ecology, health, and community among the contemporary Chumash
Religious healing among war-traumatized African immigrants
Making Wanga : reality constructions and the magical manipulation of power
"Our work is change for the sake of justice" : Hope Community, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Communing with the dead : spiritual and cultural healing in Chicano/a communities
Spirituality and aging in the San Francisco Japanese community
Healing as resistance : reflections upon new forms of American Jewish healing
Healing in feminist Wicca
Sexual healing : self-help and therapeutic Christianity in the ex-gay movement
"Jesus is my doctor" : healing and religion in African American women's lives
Gender and healing in Navajo society
Multiple meanings of Chinese healing in the United States
Rituals of healing in African American spiritual churches
Complementary and alternative medicine in America's "two Buddhisms"
La Mesa del Santo Nino de Atocha and the Conchero dance tradition of Mexico-Tenochtilan : religious healing in urban Mexico and the United States
Subtle energies and the American metaphysical tradition
Taking seriously the nature of religious healing in America
Dimensions of Islamic religious healing in America
Health, faith traditions, and South Asian Indians in North America
Hmong Shamanism : Animist spiritual healing in America's urban heartland
Spirituality and the healing of addictions : a Shamanic drumming approach
The healing genes
Religion and healing : the four expectations
Afterword : a physician's reflections