Teaching Religion and Healing

Name: Teaching Religion and Healing
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ISBN: 9780195176438

ISBN-10: 019517643X

ISBN-13: 9780195176438

Edition: 2006

Authors: Linda L. Barnes, Inï¿½s M. Talamantez, Inï¿½s M. Talamantez

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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. The primary target audience comprises faculty in religious studies, divinity schools, anthropology, sociology, and ethnic studies. However, the volume also addresses the needs of educators training pre-med students and will be an invaluable resource for those involved in educating physicians, health care professionals, and chaplains, particularly in relation to what is referred…

Book details

List price: $105.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/19/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 9.29" wide x 6.42" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.540
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.



Contributors


Introduction




Theoretical Frames



Religion, Healing, and the Body




Teaching Religion and Healing at a Southern University




Hindu, Tibetan, and Chinese Traditions



Shanti: Peace for the Mind, Body, and Soul




Keeping It All in Balance: Teaching Asian Religions through Illness and Healing




Teaching the History of Chinese Healing Traditions




Native and Chicano/a American Traditions



Teaching Native American Religious Traditions and Healing




Ometeotl Moyocoyatzin: Nahuatl Spiritual Foundations for Holistic Healing




Chicanos/as, Religion, and Healing: Traditions and Transformations




Through the Study of Shamanisms



Shamanism as a Point of Departure: Two Courses on Christianity and Healing




Teaching about Shamanism and Religious Healing: A Cross-Cultural, Biosocial-Spiritual Approach




Experiential Pedagogies



The Anthropology of Experience: The Way to Teach Religion and Healing




Medicine, Healing, and Spirituality: A Cross-Cultural Exploration




Religious Healing as Pedagogical Performance




Magic, Witchcraft, and Healing




Courses for Caregivers



Spirituality of Healing




The Worldviews Seminar: An Intensive Survey of American Urban Religious Diversity




Teaching Religion and Healing; Spirituality and Aging in the San Francisco Japanese Community




Religion and Healing for Physician's Assistants




A Medical School Curriculum on Religion and Healing




Additional Syllabi



Religion, Ritual, and Healing in North America




World Religions and Healing



Resource Bibliographies


Index