"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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.
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.
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: A 21st Century
Perspective
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
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.
