Miracle cures: saints, pilgrimage, and the healing powers of belief
Prologue -- Saints, pilgrimage, and miracles -- Life in the Middle Ages -- Saints -- Apparitions -- Pilgrimage and shrines -- Saints, pilgrimage, and healing -- Disease -- The role stress in illness -- Belief, hope, and healing -- Framing, confessing, and healing -- Appendix A: Accounts of miracles...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Berkeley, Calif. [u.a.]
University of California Press
c2010
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| In: | Year: 2010 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Miraculous healing
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| Further subjects: | B
Spirituality
B Miracles B Spiritual Therapies B Healing Religious aspects Christianity B Christianity B Religion and Medicine B Spiritual Healing |
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| Summary: | Prologue -- Saints, pilgrimage, and miracles -- Life in the Middle Ages -- Saints -- Apparitions -- Pilgrimage and shrines -- Saints, pilgrimage, and healing -- Disease -- The role stress in illness -- Belief, hope, and healing -- Framing, confessing, and healing -- Appendix A: Accounts of miracles at medieval shrines -- Appendix B: Other placebo studies |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 207 - 235) and index |
| Physical Description: | XXIX, 235 S., Ill., Kt., 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0-520-26275-1 978-0-520-26275-1 978-0-520-27134-0 |
