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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 twenty 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, Body, Meaning, Healing sensitively 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 penetrating ethnographic studies elaborate an experimental understanding of the therapeutic process, and trace the outlines of a cultural phenomenology grounded in embodiment.
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Charismatic Transformations
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Modulations of Embodiment
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Back Matter
Reviews
'...sets a new standard for exploring the cultural, phenomenological, religious and even theological aspects of health and wholeness.' - Amos Young, Religious Studies Review
About the author
THOMAS J. CSORDAS is Armington Professor of Anthropology and Religion at Case Western Reserve University and author of The Sacred Self and Language, Charisma, and Creativity.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Body, Meaning, Healing
Authors: Thomas J. Csordas
Series Title: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-08286-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2002
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-29391-8Published: 05 September 2002
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-312-29392-5Published: 05 September 2002
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-08286-2Published: 05 September 2002
Series ISSN: 2946-3475
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3483
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 321
Topics: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Sociology of Religion, Anthropology, Ethnicity Studies, Cultural Anthropology