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Faith, health, and healing in African American life / edited by Stephanie Y. Mitchem and Emilie M. Townes.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Religion, health, and healing 1556-262X
- Religion, health and healing, 1556-262X
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spiritual healing--United States.
- Spiritual healing.
- Healing--Religious aspects.
- Healing.
- African Americans--Religion.
- African Americans.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 207 pages : map ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.
- Contents:
- Ancestral songs
- Natural/supernatural : African American hoodoo narratives of sickness and healing / Yvonne Chireau
- Holistic health and healing : "environmental racism and ecological justice" / Dwight N. Hopkins
- Health and healing across the diaspora
- Bodies in time and the healing of spaces : religion, temporalities, and health / Charles H. Long
- Spiritual illness and healing : "if the Lord wills" / Arvilla Payne-Jackson
- The arts of ritual and practice
- The marking of the body, memory, and the meaning of suffering in Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata / Carolyn M. Jones
- Just awailing and aweeping : grief, lament, and hope as we face the end of life / Emilie M. Townes
- Honoring the body : ritual of breath and breathing / C. S'thembile West
- Analyzing social realities
- The destruction of Aunt Sster's house : faith, health, and healing in the African American community / Terri Baltimore and Mindy Thompson Fullilove
- The unspoken, the spoken, and affirmed : meanings of healing, same gender-loving African Americans, and Black churches / Linda L. Barnes
- Finding/making wellness
- "Seeking help for the body in the well being of the soul" / Rosemary Gooden
- Too old for the club, but always at home in the club : health, spirituality, and social support among adult Black gay men in Oakland's Cable Reef / Mark Wilson
- Spiritual wellness in the lives of African American women / Stephanie Y. Mitchem.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-200) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780275993757
- 0275993752
- OCLC:
- 226304676
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