Disease, Religion and Healing in Asia (eBook, ePUB)

Collaborations and Collisions
Redaktion: Vargas-O'Bryan, Ivette; Xun, Zhou

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book looks at the diverse models of healing that interplay with culture and religion in Asia. Cutting across several Asian regions from Hong Kong to mainland China, Tibet, India, and Japan, it addresses healing from a broader perspective and reflects a fresh new outlook on the complexities of Asian societies and their approach to health. Drawing on original fieldwork, contributors present their latest research on diverse local models of healing that occur when disease and religion meet in South and East Asian cultures. It challenges the reader to rethink predominantly long-held Western interpretations of disease management and religion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317689942
• Artikelnr.: 41850724

Autorenporträt

Ivette M. Vargas-O'Bryan is Chair and Associate professor of Religion in the Department of Religious Studies at Austin College, USA. She has been a recipient of several prestigious awards and grants and is known for her recent work on demons and illness and Buddhist nuns in Tibetan religious and medical traditions. Ivette has also authored publications on Asian monastic traditions, religion and healing, animals in religion, and religion and the environment. ZHOU Xun is lecturer of Modern History at the University of Essex, UK. She has authored and edited several books, including Narcotic Culture: A History of Drug Consumption in China (2004), Smoke: A Global History of Smoking (2004), and The Great Famine in China, 1957-1962: A Documentary History (2012). Her most recent book Forgotten Voices of Mao's Great Famine, 1958-1962: an Oral History (2013) is a remarkable oral history of modern China's greatest tragedy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: Disease Management in Medical and Ritual Contexts 1.
The management of sickness in an Indian medical vernacular 2.Like an Indian
god: Saint Anthony of Padua in Tamil Nadu as a healer and exorcist
3.Devotion and affliction in the time of cholera: ritual healing, identity
and resistance among Bengali Muslims 4. Wong Tai Sin: The divine and
healing in Hong Kong Part II: Religious and Medical Explanatory Models 5.
Ghost exorcism, memory, and healing in Hinduism 6. Storytelling and
accountability for illness in Sanskrit medical literature Part III:
Cultural Interfaces and Collisions 7. The Method-and-Wisdom model in the
theoretical syncretism of traditional Mongolian medicine 8. Balancing
Tradition Alongside a Progressively Scientific Tibetan Medical System 9.
Diagnostic techniques of Chinese Traditional Medicine and their interface
with the globalisation of medical practice 10. Healing Zen: Exploring the
brain on bowing