eBook, ePUB

Teaching Religion and Healing (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

This volume is designed to help instructors incorporate discussion of healing into their courses and to encourage the development of courses focused on religion and healing. It brings together essays by leading experts in a range of disciplines and addresses the role of healing in many different religious traditions. The primary target audience comprises faculty in religious studies, divinity schools, anthropology, sociology, and ethnic studies. However, the volume also addresses the needs of educators training pre-med students and will be an invaluable resource for those involved in educating physicians, health care professionals, and chaplains, particularly in relation to what is referred to as "cultural competence" - the ability to work with multicultural and religiously diverse patient populations.

Technische Details

• Geräte: eReader
• mit Kopierschutz
• Größe: 0.87MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

Linda L. Barnes directs the Boston Healing Landscape Project, an institute for the study of religions, medicines, and healing, at Boston University School of Medicine, where she is an Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Pediatrics. She founded and co-chairs the Religions, Medicines, and Healing program unit of the American Academy of Religion. Inés M. Talamantez is Associate Professor of Native American Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and managing editor of New Scholar: An Americanist Review. She has done extensive fieldwork in the Southwest, and has directed the Society for the Study of Native American Religious Traditions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP eBook
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190291983
• Artikelnr.: 42727251