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Religion and healing in America

Linda L. Barnes and Susan Starr Sered
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Contributors (page xi)
  • Introduction (Susan S. Sered and Linda L. Barnes, page 3)
  • I Sites of Healing: Domestic Spaces, Public Spaces
    • 1. The Cult of the Saints and the Reimagination of the Space and Time of Sickness in Twentieth-Century American Catholicism (Robert A. Orsi, page 29)
    • 2. The "Spiritual Healing Project": A Study of the Meaning of Spiritual Healing in the United Church of Christ (Bobbie McKay and Lewis A. Musil, page 49)
    • 3. Ritual and Magic: Two Diverse Approaches to Inner Healing in the Cambodian American Community (Thomas J. Douglas and Sophon Mam, page 59)
    • 4. Procreating Women and Religion: The Politics of Spirituality, Healing, and Childbirth in America (Pamela Kassen, page 71)
    • 5. Healing into Wholeness in the Episcopal Church (Jennifer L. Hollis, page 89)
    • 6. Miraculous Migrants to the City of Angels: Perceptions of El Santo Niño de Atocha and San Simón as Sources of Health and Healing (Patrick A. Polk, Michael Owen Jones, Claudia J. Hernández, and Reyna C. Ronelli., page 103)
  • II Healing from Structural Violence: La Cultura Cura
    • 7. "God Made a Miracle in My Life": Latino Pentecostal Healing in the Borderlands (Gastón Espinosa, page 123)
    • 8. The Gathering of Traditions: The Reciprocal Alliance of History, Ecology, Health, and Community among the Contemporary Chumash (Julianne Cordero, page 139)
    • 9. Religious Healing among War-Traumatized African Immigrants (John M. Janzen, Adrien Ngudiankama, and Melissa Filippi-Franz, page 159)
    • 10. Making Wanga: Reality Constructions and the Magical Manipulation of Power (Karen McCarthy Brown, page 173)
    • 11. "Our Work Is Change for the Sake of Justice": Hope Community, Minneapolis, Minnesota (Mary Farrell Bednarowski, page 195)
    • 12. Communing with the Dead: Spiritual and Cultural Healing in Chicano/a Communities (Lara Medina, page 205)
    • 13. Spirituality and Aging in the San Francisco Japanese Community (Ronald Y. Nakasone, page 217)
  • III Gendering of Suffering and Healing
    • 14. Healing as Resistance: Reflections upon New Forms of American Jewish Healing (Susan S. Sered, page 231)
    • 15. Healing in Feminist Wicca (Grove Harris, page 253)
    • 16. Sexual Healing: Self-Help and Therapeutic Christianity in the Ex-Gay Movement (Tanya Erzen, page 265)
    • 17. "Jesus Is My Doctor": Healing and Religion in African American Women's Lives (Stephanie Y. Mitchem, page 281)
    • 18. Gender and Healing in Navajo Society (Thomas J. Csordas, page 291)
  • IV Synergy, Syncretism, and Appropriation
    • 19. Multiple Meanings of Chinese Healing in the United States (Linda L. Barnes, page 307)
    • 20. Rituals of Healing in African American Spiritual Churches (Claude F. Jacobs, page 333)
    • 21. Complementary and Alternative Medicine in America's "Two Buddhisms" (Paul David Numrich, page 343)
    • 22. La Mesa del Santo Niño de Atocha and the Conchero Dance Tradition of Mexico-Tenochtilán: Religious Hearing in Urban Mexico and the United States (Inés Hernández-Avila, page 359)
    • 23. Subtle Energies and the American Metaphysical Tradition (Robert Fuller, page 375)
    • 24. Taking Seriously the Nature of Religious Healing in America (Edith Turner, page 387)
  • V Intersections with Medical and Psychotherapeutic Discourses
    • 25. Dimensions of Islamic Religious Healing in America (Marcia Hermansen, page 407)
    • 26. Health, Faith Traditions, and South Asian Indians in North America (Prakash N. Desai, page 423)
    • 27. Hmong Shamanism: Animist Spiritual Healing in America's Urban Heartland (Phua Xiong, Charles Numrich, Chu Yongyuan Wu, Deu Yang, and Gregory A. Plotnikoff, page 439)
    • 28. Spirituality and the Healing of Addictions: A Shamanic Drumming Approach (Michael Winkelman, page 455)
    • 29. The Healing Genes (Kaja Finkler, page 471)
  • VI Conclusion
    • 30. Religion and Healing: The Four Expectations (Martin E. Marty, page 487)
    • 31. Afterword: A Physician's Reflections (Harold G. Koenig, page 505)
  • Index (page 509)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
NR 10.4 (May 2007): 138-139 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/nr.2007.10.4.138
CH 75.1 (Mar. 2006): 230-232 http://www.jstor.org/stable/27644754
JSSR 45.1 ((Mar. 2006): 133-134 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3590627
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Published: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780195167955 (hardcover)
  • 9780195347111 (ebook)
  • 9780195167962 (paper)
Subject
  • Religion
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