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Spiritual healing : scientific and religious perspectives /

"There has recently been much interest in the relationship between science and religion, and how they combine to give us a 'binocular' perspective on things. One important phenomenon which has been neglected in recent work is the concept of spiritual healing. This edited collection ex...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Watts, Fraser N.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover13;
  • Contents13;
  • List of figures
  • List of contributors
  • Preface
  • 1 Conceptual issues in spiritual healing
  • 2 The historical Jesus and healing: Jesus8217; miracles in psychosocial context
  • 3 The theology of spiritual healing
  • 4 Healing the spirit: mystical Judaism, religious texts and medicine
  • 5 Conceptualizations of spiritual healing: Christian and secular
  • 6 The psychodynamics of spiritual healing and the power of mother kissing it better
  • 7 Spiritual healing in the context of the human need for safeness, connectedness and warmth: a biopsychosocial approach
  • 8 Modelling the biomedical role of spirituality through breast cancer research
  • 9 Spirituality and health: assessing the evidence
  • 10 Relating spiritual healing and science: some critical reflections
  • 11 Concluding integration.