Disease, religion, and healing in Asia : collaborations and collisions / edited by Ivette M. Vargas-O'Bryan and Zhou Xun.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
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xii, 173 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction
    • Part I: Disease management in medical and ritual contexts. The management of sickness in an Indian medical vernacular / Helen Lambert
    • Like an Indian god: Saint Anthony of Padua in Tamil Nadu as a healer and exorcist / Brigitte Sébastia
    • Devotion and affliction in the time of cholera: ritual healing, identity and resistance among Bengali Muslims / Fabrizio M. Ferrari
    • Wong Tai Sin: the divine and healing in Hong Kong / Mark Greene
    • Part II: Religious and medical explanatory models. Ghost exorcism,memory, and healing in Hinduism / Daniel Cohen --Storytelling and accountability for illness in Sanskrit medical literature / Anthony Cerulli
    • Part III: Cultural interfaces and collisions. The method-and-wisdom model in the theoretical syncretism of traditional Mongolian medicine / Vesna A. Wallace
    • Balancing tradition alongside a progressively scientific Tibetan medical system / Ivette Vargas-O'Bryan
    • Diagnostic techniques of Chinese medical traditions and their interface with the globalization of medical practice / Nancy Holroyde-Downing
    • Healing Zen: exploring the brain on bowing / Paula R. Arai.
    ISBN
    • 9781138023659 ((hardback))
    • 1138023655 ((hardback))
    LCCN
    2014022949
    OCLC
    883647735
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