The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Medicine, and Health

Herausgeber: Luddeckens, Dorothea; Hetmanczyk, Philipp; Klassen, Pamela E.; Stein, Justin B.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The relationships between religion, spirituality, health, biomedical institutions, complementary and alternative healing systems are widely discussed today. This book is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems and debates in this exciting subject and is the first collection of its kind.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Handbooks in Religion
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 546
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 175mm x 246mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 968g
• ISBN-13: 9781032116532
• ISBN-10: 1032116536
• Artikelnr.: 69789765

Autorenporträt

Dorothea Lüddeckens is Professor for the Study of Religions with a social scientific orientation at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Philipp Hetmanczyk is a teaching and research staff member of the Department for the Study of Religions at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Pamela E. Klassen is Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto, Canada. Justin B. Stein is Instructor in the Department of Asian Studies, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, British Columbia, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: critical approaches to the entanglement of religion,
medicine, and healing Part I. Healing practices with religious roots and
frames 1. Afro-Atlantic healing practices 2. Ayurveda: the modern faces of
'Vedic' healing and sacred science 3. Curanderismo in the Americas 4.
Healing traditions in sub-Saharan Africa 5. Homeopathy and chiropractic in
the United States and beyond 6. 'Mind Cure' and mindfulness-based
interventions (MBIs) 7. The hospice movement, palliative care, and
Anthroposophy in Europe 8. Spiritual healing in Latin America 9.
Traditional Chinese medicine: history, ethnography, and practice 10. Unani
medicine: health, religion, and politics in colonial India Part II.
Religious actors in and around the medical field 11. Diagnosing
materialism: Ayurvedic purification regimens as spiritual cure 12. Buddhist
spiritual caregivers in Japan 13. Chaplains and spiritual caregivers in
American healthcare organizations 14. Muslim healthcare chaplaincy in North
America and Europe: professionalizing a communal obligation 15. Charismatic
healers: embodied practices in US and Singaporean megachurches 16. Energy
healing: Reiki, Therapeutic Touch, and Healing Touch in the United States
and beyond 17. Gurus and healing: Amma (Mata Amritanandamyi) at the
intersection of miracles and medicine 18. Medical missionaries and witch
doctors: Protestant object lessons in biomedicine in Africa and the South
Pacific 19. Rabbinic authority and reproductive medicine in Israel PART
III. Organizing infrastructures of religion and medicine: pluralism and
competition 20. Digital tools for fertility awareness: family planning,
health, religion, and feminine embodiment 21. The Internet as
infrastructure for healing: the case of spirit possession in Japan 22.
Markets of medicine: orthodox medicine, complementary and alternative
medicine, and religion in Britain 23. Medical pluralism in policy and
practice: the case of Malaysia 24. Midwifery and traditional birth
attendants in transnational perspective 25. Postcolonial medicine in
African contexts 26. Religious entrepreneurs in the health market:
opportunities in a field dominated by biomedicine Part IV. Boundary-making
between religion and medicine 27. Policing the boundaries of medical
science: causality, evidence, and the question of religion 28. Competing
religious and biomedical notions of treatment: the case of blood
transfusion refusals 29. Ayurveda (re-)invented: engagements with science
and religion in colonial India 30. Nurses on the frontline of secular and
religious knowledges 31. Religion, culture, and the politics of vaccine
hesitancy: perspectives of parents, pundits, and physicians 32. The World
Health Organization's production and enactment of spirituality 33.
Contemporary psychiatry and psychotherapy's engagements with
religion/spirituality in Europe and North America Part V. Religion and
epidemics 34. Religion, 'the Chinese virus,' and perceptions of Asian
Americans as a moral and medical menace 35. Defying responsibility: modes
of silence, religious symbolism, and biopolitics in the COVID-19 pandemic
36. Christianity and the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States 37. The
impact of COVID-19 on religion in Japan 38. A cultural map of the pandemic