Teaching religion and healing / edited by Linda L. Barnes, Inés Talamantez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barnes, Linda L.

Talamantez, Inés.

American Academy of Religion.

Series:

AAR teaching religious studies

AAR teaching religious studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion--Study and teaching.

Religion.

Medicine--Religious aspects--Study and teaching.

Medicine.

Spiritual healing--Study and teaching.

Spiritual healing.

Medicine--Religious aspects.

Physical Description:

xvii, 386 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

At head of title: AAR

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Summary:

This volume is designed to help instructors incorporate discussion of healing into their courses and to encourage the development of courses focused on religion and healing. It brings together essays by leading experts in a range of disciplines and addresses the role of healing in many different religious traditions. The primary target audience comprises faculty in religious studies, divinity schools, anthropology, sociology, and ethnic studies. However, the volume also addresses the needs of educators training pre-med students and will be an invaluable resource for those involved in educating physicians, health care professionals, and chaplains, particularly in relation to what is referred to as "cultural competence" - the ability to work with multicultural and religiously diverse patient populations.

Contents:

Introduction / Linda L. Barnes

Theoretical frames. Religion, healing, and the body / Suzanne J. Crawford ; Teaching religion and healing at a southern university / Kaja Finkler

Hindu, Tibetan, and Chinese traditions. Shanti : peace for the mind, body, and soul / Vasudha Narayanan ; Keeping it all in balance : teaching Asian religions through illness and healing / Ivette Vargas-O'Bryan ; Teaching the history of Chinese healing traditions / Linda L. Barnes

Native and Chicano/a American traditions. Teaching native American religious traditions and healing / Inés M. Talamantez ; Ometeotl moyocoyatzin : Nahuatl spiritual foundations for holistic healing / Inés Hernández-Ávila

Chicanos/as, religion, and healing : traditions and transformations / Lara Medina

Through the study of shamanisms. Shamanism as a point of departure : two courses on Christianity and healing / Amanda Porterfield

Teaching about shamanism and religious healing : a cross-cultural, biosocial-spiritual approach / Michael Winkelman and Christopher Carr

Experiential pedagogies. The anthropology of experience : the way to teach religion and healing / Edith Turner ; Medicine, healing, and spirituality : a cross-cultural exploration / Paula K.R. Arai ; Religious healing as pedagogical performance / Stephanie Y. Mitchem ; Magic, witchcraft, and healing / Arvilla Payne-Jackson

Courses for caregivers. Spirituality of healing / Kwok Pui-lan ; The worldviews seminar : an intensive survey of American urban religious diversity / Lucinda A. Mosher and Claude Jacobs ; Teaching religion and healing : spirituality and aging in the San Francisco Japanese community / Ronald Y. Nakasone ; Religion and healing for physician's assistants / Fred Glennon ; A medical school curriculum on religion and healing / Linda L. Barnes

Additional syllabi. Religion, ritual, and healing in North America / Pamela E. Klassen ; World religions and healing / Linda L. Barnes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [353]-378) and index.

ISBN:

019517643X

0195176448

9780195176438

9780195176445

OCLC:

61178120

Publisher Number:

9780195176438

9780195176445

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