Body/Meaning/Healing

By: Thomas J. Csordas

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Hardcover | 19 July 2002 | Edition Number 1

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Exactly where is the common ground between religion and medicine in phenomena described as 'religious healing?' In what sense is the human body a cultural phenomenon and not merely a biological entity? Drawing on over twenty years of research on topics ranging from Navajo and Catholic Charismatic ritual healing to the cultural and religious implications of virtual reality in biomedical technology, Body, Meaning, Healing sensitively examines these questions about human experience and the meaning of being human. In recognizing the way that the meaningfulness of our existence as bodily beings is sometimes created in the encounter between suffering and the sacred, these penetrating ethnographic studies elaborate an experimental understanding of the therapeutic process, and trace the outlines of a cultural phenomenology grounded in embodiment.

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'...sets a new standard for exploring the cultural, phenomenological, religious and even theological aspects of health and wholeness.' - Amos Young, Religious Studies Review

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Non-Fiction Mind, Body, Spirit Complementary Therapies, Healing & Health Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography Society & Culture Cultural Studies Religion & Beliefs Religion Comparative Religion Social Groups

Ethnic Studies Science Astronomy, Space & Time Theoretical & Mathematical Astronomy Social & Cultural Aspects of Religious Groups

Credits	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
Charismatic Transformations	p. 9
The Rhetoric of Transformation in Ritual Healing	p. 11
Embodiment as a Paradigm for Anthropology	p. 58
A Handmaid's Tale	p. 88
The Affliction of Martin	p. 100
Navajo Transformations	p. 139
Ritual Healing and the Politics of Identity in Contemporary Navajo Society	p. 141
Talk to Them So They Understand	p. 165
The Sore that Does Not Heal	p. 194
Words from the Holy People	p. 219
Modulations of Embodiment	p. 239
Somatic Modes of Attention	p. 241
Shades of Representation and Being in Virtual Reality	p. 260
Notes	p. 285
Bibliography	p. 297
Indexes	p. 317
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