Health and Healing in Minority Religions

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.

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Main Author: Harvey, Sarah (Author)
Contributors: Barker, Eileen 1938- (Contributor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Oxford Taylor & Francis Group 2025
In:Year: 2025
Edition:1st ed.
Series/Journal:Routledge Inform Series on Minority Religions and Spiritual Movements Series
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Parallel Edition:Erscheint auch als: 9780367345716

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520 |a Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: What about My Body? Concepts of Body, Health and Healing in Minority Religions -- The Body -- Metaphors of clothing, organisms and machines -- Crossing boundaries -- Beyond the body -- Bodily autonomy -- Health -- Prevention vs cure -- Food -- Healing -- Healers -- Spiritual, but not necessarily religious, healing -- Sacred sites -- Words -- Contributions to This Volume -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 1: Health and Healing in the Watch Tower Organisation -- Charles Taze Russell and health -- Health in the Rutherford era -- Food laws -- Blood -- Alternative and complementary therapies -- Coping with Covid -- Old age and infirmity -- Health in the coming kingdom -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 2: Healing and Holiness in Christian Scientists' Practice -- Holiness and Healing - Biblical Precedent -- Scholarship on Christian Science Healing -- Christianity of Christian Science Healing -- A "Healing Church" -- Interrelations with Society -- Communion, Regeneration, and Joy -- Healing and Holiness in the 21st Century -- Note -- References -- Chapter 3: Reclaiming Eschatology: Healing and a Female Messiah -- The Panacea Society -- Background to the Healing -- Using the Healing -- Water-Takers -- Eschatology of the Body -- Female Eschatological Healing -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Health and Wealth in Pentecostal/Charismatic Christianity -- Healing in Pentecostal/Charismatic Christianity -- Healing and Spiritual Warfare -- Medical Relief and Divine Healing -- Health and Wealth -- Celebrity Faith Healers -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: Healing in an African Context -- African concepts of healing -- The Gisu in the 1950s. 
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