Medicine - Religion - Spirituality: Global Perspectives on Traditional, Complementary, and Alternative Healing

book: Medicine - Religion - Spirituality

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2018

Medicine - Religion - Spirituality

Global Perspectives on Traditional, Complementary, and Alternative Healing

Edited by: Dorothea Lüddeckens and Monika Schrimpf

Volume 13 in the series Religionswissenschaft

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839445822

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About this book

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?

Author / Editor information

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.

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»Dieser Band [ist] ergiebig, anregend und hinreichend differenziert im Umgang mit einem äußerst diffusen zeitgenössischen Phänomen, das weiterer Untersuchungen, Überprüfungen und Einschätzungen bedarf.«
Assia Maria Harwazinski, Auskunft, 39/1+2 (2019)

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Contents Open Access Download PDF	5
Preface and Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	7
Introduction Observing the Entanglement of Medicine, Religion, and Spirituality through the Lens of Differentiation Dorothea Lüddeckens and Monika Schrimpf Open Access Download PDF	9
Medicalized Healing in East Africa The Separation of Medicine and Religion by Politics and Science Walter Bruchhausen Open Access Download PDF	23
Medical Discourses and Practices in Contemporary Japanese Religions Monika Schrimpf Open Access Download PDF	57
Self-fashioning of the Hereditary Siddha Practitioner Semantic Structure and Structuring Conditions Nina Rageth Open Access Download PDF	91
Ayurveda and Discursive Formations between Religion, Medicine and Embodiment A Case Study from Germany Antony George Pattathu Open Access Download PDF	133
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) as a Toolkit for Secular Health-Care The De-differentiation of Religion and Medicine Dorothea Lüddeckens Open Access Download PDF	167
Crossing Fields Anthroposophical End-Of-Life Care in Switzerland Barbara Zeugin, Dorothea Lüddeckens and Monika Schrimpf Open Access Download PDF	201
Mapping the Boundaries between Science and Religion Psychology, Psychiatry, and Near-Death Experiences Stephanie Gripentrog Open Access Download PDF	241
List of Authors Open Access Download PDF	273

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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 274
Keywords: Spirituality; Entanglement; CAM; Traditional Medicine; Medicine; Religious Studies; Body; Care

eBook

Published: November 27, 2018
ISBN: 9783839445822