Author: Barnes, Linda L. (Louise); & Talamantez, Inés ; editors:
Title: Teaching Religion and Healing
Description: Oxford, Oxford University Press, (2006). orig.wrappers. 23x15cm, xvii,386 pp. PAPERBACK.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents : Introduction / Linda L. Barnes -- Theoretical frames. Religion, healing, and the body / Suzanne J. Crawford ; Teaching religion and healing at a southern university / Kaja Finkler -- Hindu, Tibetan, and Chinese traditions. Shanti : peace for the mind, body, and soul / Vasudha Narayanan ; Keeping it all in balance : teaching Asian religions through illness and healing / Ivette Vargas-O’Bryan ; Teaching the history of Chinese healing traditions / Linda L. Barnes -- Native and Chicano/a American traditions. Teaching native American religious traditions and healing / Inés M. Talamantez ; Ometeotl moyocoyatzin : Nahuatl spiritual foundations for holistic healing / Inés Hernández-Ávila -- Chicanos/as, religion, and healing : traditions and transformations / Lara Medina -- Through the study of shamanisms. Shamanism as a point of departure : two courses on Christianity and healing / Amanda Porterfield -- Teaching about shamanism and religious healing : a cross-cultural, biosocial-spiritual approach / Michael Winkelman and Christopher Carr -- Experiential pedagogies. The anthropology of experience : the way to teach religion and healing / Edith Turner ; Medicine, healing, and spirituality : a cross- cultural exploration / Paula K.R. Arai ; Religious healing as pedagogical performance / Stephanie Y. Mitchem ; Magic, witchcraft, and healing / Arvilla Payne-Jackson -- Courses for caregivers. Spirituality of healing / Kwok Pui-lan ; The worldviews seminar : an intensive survey of American urban religious diversity ...

Keywords: Comparative Religion, Religious, Medicine, Spiritual Healing, , , , ,