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Medicine – Religion – Spirituality Global Perspectives on Traditional, Complementary, and Alternative Healing Dorothea Lüddeckens, Monika Schrimpf
De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2018 Part 2 Available online
De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2018 Part 2- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Religionswissenschaft
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion.
- Spirituality.
- Entanglement.
- CAM.
- Traditional Medicine.
- Medicine.
- Religious Studies.
- Body.
- Care.
- Local Subjects:
- Religion.
- Spirituality.
- Entanglement.
- CAM.
- Traditional Medicine.
- Medicine.
- Religious Studies.
- Body.
- Care.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Lüddeckens/Schrimpf (eds.), Medicine – Religion – Spirituality Global Perspectives on Traditional, Complementary, and Alternative Healing
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2018
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Dorothea Lüddeckens (Prof. Dr.), born in 1966, teaches Study of Religions at the University of Zurich. Her research foci lie in qualitative-empirical research of contemporary religion in Western Europe and contemporary Zoroastrianism, ranging from studies regarding dying and death to research on religion and medicine. She has directed research projects on "Visible Markers of Religious Identity in Public Debate" and "Alternative Religiosity/Spirituality at the End of Life".
- Monika Schrimpf (Prof. Dr.), born in 1967, teaches Japanese Studies at the University of Tübingen. She currently holds a Heisenberg professorship and has published on modern and contemporary religions in Japan. Her present research focuses on gender and religion in contemporary Japan. Between 2002 and 2004 she was as research fellow at the German Institute for Japanese Studies in Tokyo.
- Summary:
- In modern societies the functional differentiation of medicine and religion is the predominant paradigm. Contemporary therapeutic practices and concepts in healing systems, such as Transpersonal Psychology, Ayurveda, as well as Buddhist and Anthroposophic medicine, however, are shaped by medical as well as religious or spiritual elements. This book investigates configurations of the entanglement between medicine, religion, and spirituality in Europe, Asia, North America, and Africa. How do political and legal conditions affect these healing systems? How do they relate to religious and scientific discourses? How do therapeutic practitioners position themselves between medicine and religion, and what is their appeal for patients?
- »Die dargestellten Perspektiven und Erkenntnisse in diesem Sammelband können [...] einen gewinnbringenden Beitrag leisten, einer stigmatisierenden Polarisierung, abwertenden Hierarchisierung oder undifferenzierten Generalisierung vorzubeugen.«
- »Dieser Band [ist] ergiebig, anregend und hinreichend differenziert im Umgang mit einem äußerst diffusen zeitgenössischen Phänomen, das weiterer Untersuchungen, Überprüfungen und Einschätzungen bedarf.«
- Besprochen in: Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft, 29/2 (2021), Benedikt J. KastnerCurare, 44/1-4 (2021)
- »The perspectives and insights presented in this anthology can [...] make a valuable contribution to preventing stigmatising polarisation, pejorative hierarchisation or undifferentiated generalisation.«
- Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Preface and Acknowledgements 7 Introduction 9 Medicalized Healing in East Africa 23 Medical Discourses and Practices in Contemporary Japanese Religions 57 Self-fashioning of the Hereditary Siddha Practitioner 91 Ayurveda and Discursive Formations between Religion, Medicine and Embodiment 133 Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) as a Toolkit for Secular Health-Care 167 Crossing Fields 201 Mapping the Boundaries between Science and Religion 241 List of Authors 273
- Notes:
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 http://www.transcript-verlag.de/open-access-bei-transcript
- ISBN:
- 9783837645828
- 3837645827
- 9783839445822
- 3839445825
- OCLC:
- 1076464448
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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