The Routledge handbook of religion, medicine and health. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Handbook of religion, medicine and health; Religion, medicine and health
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Dorothea Lüddeckens, Philipp Hetmanczyk, Pamela E. Klassen, Justin B. Stein.
• Editors: Lüddeckens, Dorothea, 1966-; Hetmanczyk, Philipp; Klassen, Pamela E (Pamela Edith), 1967-; Stein, Justin B
• Contents: Introduction: Critical Approaches to the Entanglement of Religion, Medicine, and Healing Pamela Klassen, Philipp Hetmanczyk, Dorothea Lüddeckens and Justin Stein Part I. Healing Practices with Religious Roots and Frames 1. Afro-Atlantic Healing Practices Maarit Forde 2. Ayurveda: The Modern Faces of ‘Vedic’ Healing and Sacred Science Maya Warrier 3. Curanderismo in the Americas Brett Hendrikson 4. Healing Traditions in Sub-Saharan Africa Walter Bruchhausen 5. Homeopathy and Chiropractic in the United States and Beyond Holly Folk 6. ‘Mind Cure’ and Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBIs) Wakoh Shannon Hickey 7. The Hospice Movement, Palliative Care, and Anthroposophy in Europe Barbara Zeugin 8. Spiritual Healing in Latin America Bettina E. Schmidt 9. Traditional Chinese Medicine: History, Ethnography, and Practices Elisabeth Hsu 10. Unani Medicine: Health, Religion, and Politics in Colonial India Seema Alavi Part II. Religious Actors in and around the Medical Field 11. Diagnosing Materialism: Ayurvedic Purification Regimens as Spiritual Cure Jean Langford 12. Buddhist Spiritual Caregivers in Japan Takahashi Hara 13. Chaplains and Spiritual Caregivers in American Healthcare Organizations Wendy Cadge, Michael Skaggs 14. Muslim Healthcare Chaplaincy in North America and Europe: Professionalizing a Communal Obligation Lance Laird, Samsiah Abdul Majid, Magda Mohammed 15. Charismatic Healers: Embodied Practices in US and Singaporean Megachurches Katja Rakow 16. Energy Healing: Reiki, Therapeutic Touch, and Healing Touch in the United States and Beyond Justin B. Stein 17. Gurus and Healing: Amma (Mata Amritanandamayi) at the Intersection of Miracles and Medicine Amanda Lucia 18. Medical Missionaries and Witch Doctors: Protestant Object Lessons in Biomedicine in Africa and the South Pacific Daniel Midena 19. Rabbinic Authorities and Reproductive Medicine in Israel Tsipy Ivry, Elly Teman Part III. Organising Infrastructures of Religion and Medicine: Pluralism and Competition 20. Digital Tools for Fertility Awareness: Family Planning, Health, Religion, and Feminine Embodiment Florence Pasche-Guignard 21. The Internet as Infrastructure for Healing: The Case of Spirit Possession in Japan Birgit Staemmler 22. Markets of Medicine: Orthodox Medicine, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and Religion in Britain Mike Saks 23. Medical Pluralism in Policy and Practice: The Case of Malaysia Md. Nazrul Islam 24. Midwifery and Traditional Birth Attendants in Transnational Perspective Janice Boddy, Sarah Williams 25. Postcolonial Medicine in African Contexts Nolwazi Mkhwanazi 26. Religious Entrepreneurs in the Health Market: Opportunities in a Field Dominated by Biomedicine Markus Hero Part IV. Boundary-Making between Religion and Medicine 27. Policing the Boundaries of Medical Science: Causality, Evidence, and the Question of Religion Robert C. Fuller 28. Competing Religious and Biomedical Notions of Treatment: The Case of Blood Transfusion Refusals Malgorzata Rajtar 29. Ayurveda (re-)Invented: Engagements with Science and Religion in Colonial India Poonam Bala 30. Nurses on the Front Line of Secular and Religious Knowledges Sheryl Kirkham Reimer 31. Religion, Culture, and the Politics of Vaccine Hesitancy: Perspectives of Parents, Pundits, and Physicians Paul Bramadat 32. The World Health Organization's Production and Enactment of Spirituality Rodrigo Toniol 33. Contemporary Psychiatry and Psychotherapy’s Engagements with Religion/Spirituality in Europe and North America Dorothea Lüddeckens, Thomas Lüddeckens Part V. Religion and Epidemics 34. Religion, ‘The Chinese Virus, ’ and Perceptions of Asian Americans as a Moral and Medical Menace Melissa Borja 35. Defying Responsibility: Modes of Silence, Religious Symbolism and Biopolitics in the Covid 19-Pandemic Britta Ohm 36. Christianity and the Coronavirus in the United States Jonathan Riddle 37. The Impact of COVID-19 on Religion in Japan Levi McLaughlin 38. A Cultural Map of the Pandemic Tamar El Or
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 201.661; Medicine -- Religious aspects; Health -- Religious aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000464320; 9781000464306; 9781315207964
• Related ISBNs: 9781138630062
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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