Miracle cures : saints, pilgrimage, and the healing powers of belief /
In this work, Scott explores the realities of religious healing. He inquires into the power of relics, apparitions, and the transformative nature of sacred journeying and shines new light on the roles belief, hope, and emotion can play in healing.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press,
©2010.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue
- Appealing to saints for miracles
- Life in the Middle Ages
- Saints
- Apparitions
- Pilgrimage and shrines
- Saints and healing
- Disease
- The role stress in illness
- Belief, hope, and healing
- Framing, confessing, and healing
- Appendix A: Accounts of miracles at medieval shrines.