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The Sacred Self : A Cultural Phenomenology of Charismatic Healing /

How does religious healing work, if indeed it does? What is actually being healed by the performances of the shaman, the medicine man, or the faith healer? In this study of the contemporary North American movement known as the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, Thomas Csordas offers new insight into the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Csordas, Thomas J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1997, 1994.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ritual healing: affliction and transformation
  • Therapeutic process and experience
  • Embodied imagery and divine revelation
  • Imaginal performance and healing of memories
  • Image, memory, and efficacy
  • Demons and deliverance
  • Encounters with evil
  • The raging and the healing
  • Envoi: the sacred self.