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Medicine, religion, spirituality : global perspectives on traditional, complementary, and alternative healing /

In modern societies the functional differentiation of medicine and religion is the predominant paradigm. Contemporary therapeutic practices and concepts in healing systems, such as Transpersonal Psychology, Ayurveda, as well as Buddhist and Anthroposophic medicine, however, are shaped by medical as...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lüddeckens, Dorothea, 1966- (Editor ), Schrimpf, Monika (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Bielefeld] : Transcript, [2018]
Colección:Religious studies ; volume 13
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : observing the entanglement of medicine, religion, and spirituality through the lens of differentiation / Dorothea Lüddeckens and Monika Schrimpf
  • Medicalized healing in East Africa : the separation of medicine and religion by politics and science / Walter Brochhausen
  • Medical discourses and practices in contemporary Japanese religions / Monika Schrimpf
  • Self-fashioning of the hereditary Siddha practitioner : semantic structure and structuring conditions / Nina Rageth
  • Ayurveda and discursive formations between religion, medicine and embodiment : a case study from Germany / Antony George Pattathu
  • Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) as a toolkit for secular health-care : the de-differentiation of religion and medicine / Dorothea Lüddeckens
  • Crossing fields : anthroposophical end-of-life care in Switzerland / Barbara Zeugin, Dorothea Lüddeckens, Monika Schrimpf
  • Mapping the boundaries between science and religion : psychology, psychiatry, and near-death experiences / Stephanie Gripentrog.