Health and Healing in Minority Religions

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-367-34571-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Inform Series on Minority Religions and Spiritual Movements

This volume explores the diversity of beliefs and practices around health and healing in minority religions from different perspectives. The contributors include academics from a variety of disciplines as well as members of minority religions. The introductory chapter focuses on the metaphors and meanings that religions use to indicate their understandings of the body and its boundaries and concepts of health and healing. Chapters follow on the concepts of health and healing in the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Christian Science, Panacea Society, Pentecostal Christianity, Paganism, Lubavitcher Hasidim and Daesoon Jinrihoe, amongst others. Other chapters focus on contemporary yoga, the Gisu of Uganda, the psychology of believers in alternative medicine and the French government’s opposition to alternative healing practices.The book will be useful for academics and students of religious studies, especially those interested in minority religions and alternative healing practices.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barker, Eileen

Harvey, Sarah

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sexualität & Gender in den Religionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Theologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Religionspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: What about my Body? Concepts of Body, Health and Healing in Minority Religions 1. Health and Healing in the Watch Tower Organisation 2. Healing and Holiness in Christian Scientists' Practice 3. Reclaiming Eschatology: Healing and a Female Messiah 4. Health and Wealth in Pentecostal/Charismatic Christianity 5. Healing in an African Context 6. Health and Healing in Contemporary Paganism 7. Working with a Body: Flexible Conceptual Models in Contemporary Yoga 8. Healing Narratives in the Jeon-gyeong 9. The Magic of Texts: Religious Healing Among Lubavitcher Hasidim 10. G. I. Gurdjieff on Health and Healing: Hypnotism, Sacred Dances, Diet, Physical Labour, and Drugs 11. Illness as Impurity: Practices for Cleansing and Purifying the Body 12. The Psychology of Belief in and use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) 13. The Fight Against Undesired Health and Healing Practices Labelled As “Sectarian Abuses” in France.  Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sarah Harvey is Senior Research Officer at Inform, the educational charity based at King's College London.

Eileen Barker, OBE, FBA, is Professor Emerita in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She founded Inform in 1988.