Details

Subject(s)

• Medicine—Religious aspects [Browse]

Editor

• Lüddeckens, Dorothea, 1966- [Browse]

Series

Routledge handbooks in religion. [More in this series]

Summary note

The relationships between religion, spirituality, health, biomedical institutions, complementary, and alternative healing systems are widely discussed today. While many of these debates revolve around the biomedical legitimacy of religious modes of healing, the market for them continues to grow. The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Medicine, and Health is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems, and debates in this exciting subject and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising over thirty-five chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into five parts: Healing practices with religious roots and frames Religious actors in and around the medical field Organizing infrastructures of religion and medicine: pluralism and competition Boundary-making between religion and medicine Religion and epidemics Within these sections, central issues, debates and problems are examined, including health and healing, religiosity, spirituality, biomedicine, medicalization, complementary medicine, medical therapy, efficacy, agency, and the nexus of body, mind, and spirit. The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Medicine, and Health is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies. The Handbook will also be very useful for those in related fields, such as sociology, anthropology, and medicine.

Notes

Includes index.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of contributors
• Preface
• 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
• Index.

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ISBN

• 1-000-46432-6
• 1-000-46430-X
• 1-315-20796-6

OCLC

• 1273976961
• 1269481870

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