Situating religion and medicine in Asia : methodological insights and innovations / edited by Michael Stanley-Baker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stanley-Baker, Michael, 1971- editor.

Series:

Social histories of medicine.

Social histories of medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Religious aspects.

Medicine.

Medicine--Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 390 pages) : illustration (black and white), map (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2023.

Summary:

This edited volume presents the latest research on the intersection of religion and medicine in Asia. It features chapters by internationally known scholars, who bring to bear a range of methodological and geographic expertise on this topic. The book's central question is to what extent 'religion' and 'medicine' have overlapped or interrelated in various Asian societies. Collectively, the contributions explore a number of related issues, such as: which societies separated out religious from medical concerns, at which times and in what ways? Where have medicine and religion converged, and how has such knowledge been defined by scholars and cultural actors? Are 'religion' and 'medicine' the best terms by which scholars can grapple with knowledge about the sacred and the self, destiny and disease?

Contents:

Front matter

Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Endorsement

Contents

List of illustrations

List of Contributors

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: East Asia

Religion and health care in middle-period China

Religion and medicine in premodern Japan

Female alchemy in late imperial and modern China

Part II: South Asia

Religion and medicine in Sanskrit literature: the Rāmāyaṇa and the politics of an epic plant

From 'medical men' to 'local health traditions': the secularisation of medicine in portrayals of health care in India

Sound medicine: towards a nomadology of medical mantras in seventeenth to twentieth-century Bengal

Part III: Himalayas, Southeast Asia

Sowa Rigpa, Tibetan medicine, Tibetan healing

Homeopathy and Islam in Malaysia: encounters of religion and complementary medical traditions in a modern Asian multi-ethnic society

Questioning the boundaries between medicine and religion in contemporary Myanmar

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 3, 2026).

ISBN:

1-5261-8535-0

1-5261-6002-1

1-5261-6000-5

OCLC:

1412159835