The sacred self : a cultural phenomenology of charismatic healing /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Csordas, Thomas J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1997, ©1994.
Subjects:
Catholic Church > New England > History > 1965-
Catholic Church > History > 1965-
Église catholique > Histoire > 1965-
Catholic Church
Since 1965
Spiritual healing.
Pentecostalism > Catholic Church.
Pentecostalism > New England.
Self.
Identification (Religion)
Ego (Psychology)
Guérison par la foi.
Mouvement charismatique > Nouvelle-Angleterre.
Moi (Psychologie)
RELIGION > Christian Theology > Soteriology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Pentecostalism
Pentecostalism > Catholic Church
Self
Spiritual healing
New England > Church history.
New England
Church history
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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