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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)
Introduction
Charismatic Transformations
Navajo Transformations
Modulations of Embodiment
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'...sets a new standard for exploring the cultural, phenomenological, religious and even theological aspects of health and wholeness.' - Amos Young, Religious Studies Review
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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.
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- 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