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Disease, religion, and healing in Asia : collaborations and collisions / edited by Ivette M. Vargas-O'Bryan and Zhou Xun.
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English
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London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
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xii, 173 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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BL65.M4 D57 2015
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Subject(s)
Healing
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Religious aspects
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Healing
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Asia
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Medicine
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Religious aspects
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Medicine
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Asia
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Spiritual healing
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East Asia
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Vargas-O'Bryan, Ivette M.
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Zhou, Xun, 1968-
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Routledge studies in Asian religion and philosophy ; 14.
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Routledge studies in Asian religion and philosophy ; 14
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Bibliographic references
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.
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ISBN
9781138023659 ((hardback))
1138023655 ((hardback))
LCCN
2014022949
OCLC
883647735
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