Exactly where is the common ground between religion and medicine in phenomena described as "religious healing?" In what sense is the human body a cultural phenomenon and not merely a biological entity? Drawing on over twenty years of research on topics ranging from Navajo and Catholic Charismatic ritual healing to the cultural and religious implications of virtual reality in biomedical technology, Body/Meaning/Healing sensitively examines these questions about human experience and the meaning of being human. In recognizing the way that the meaningfulness of our existence as bodily beings is sometimes created in the encounter between suffering and the sacred, these penetrating ethnographic studies elaborate an experiential understanding of the therapeutic process, and trace the outlines of a cultural phenomenology grounded in embodiment.
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"Brilliant and quite sensitive accounts of the range of bodily experience and meaning across several cultures. This collection of essays places Csordas at the forefront of American anthropology." --Vincent Crapanzano, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Comparative Literature, CUNY Graduate Center
"No one writes more interestingly about cultural embodiment and its role in the healing process than Tom Csordas. A collection that strides between medical anthropology, the anthropology of religion and psychological anthropology, and is stuffed full of important theory, telling ethnography, and many other things besides that speak to what is most deeply human in experience." --Arthur Kleinman, Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry, Harvard University
"No one writes more interestingly about cultural embodiment and its role in the healing process than Tom Csordas. A collection that strides between medical anthropology, the anthropology of religion and psychological anthropology, and is stuffed full of important theory, telling ethnography, and many other things besides that speak to what is most deeply human in experience." --Arthur Kleinman, Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry, Harvard University
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Thomas J. Csordas is Armington Professor of Anthropology and Religion at Case Western Reserve University and author of The Sacred Self and Language, Charisma, and Creativity.
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Healing at its most human is not an escape into irreality and mystification, but an intensification of the encounter between suffering and hope at the moment in which it finds a voice, where the anguished clash of bare life and raw existence emerges from muteness into articulation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
healing minister, imaginal performance, gestural meaning, cultural phenomenology, religious healing, peyote meeting, ritual healing, healing room, endogenous processes, behavioral environment, church healing, rhetorical impact, existential ground, healing forms, mystery illness, road man Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Father Felix, Healing of Memories, Catholic Charismatic, Catholic Pentecostal, United States, Charismatic Renewal, Holy Spirit, North American, Jesus Christ, Roman Catholic, Indian Health Service, New Mexico, Example Three, National Library of Medicine, Reverend Prince, Example One, Tuba City, Catholic Charisinatics, Chapters One, Example Two, Gulf War, Karl Heinz, University of Hamburg, Virgin Mary New!
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Healing at its most human is not an escape into irreality and mystification, but an intensification of the encounter between suffering and hope at the moment in which it finds a voice, where the anguished clash of bare life and raw existence emerges from muteness into articulation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
healing minister, imaginal performance, gestural meaning, cultural phenomenology, religious healing, peyote meeting, ritual healing, healing room, endogenous processes, behavioral environment, church healing, rhetorical impact, existential ground, healing forms, mystery illness, road man Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Father Felix, Healing of Memories, Catholic Charismatic, Catholic Pentecostal, United States, Charismatic Renewal, Holy Spirit, North American, Jesus Christ, Roman Catholic, Indian Health Service, New Mexico, Example Three, National Library of Medicine, Reverend Prince, Example One, Tuba City, Catholic Charisinatics, Chapters One, Example Two, Gulf War, Karl Heinz, University of Hamburg, Virgin Mary New!
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- Human Body (Inside-Outside Puzzles) by Straight Edge Press in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Commencement address: A talk to university freshmen, and other heretical essays in education by Harry L Case in Back Matter
- The Peyote cult by Weston LaBarre in Back Matter
- Liquid Life: Abortion and Buddhism in Japan by William R. LaFleur in Back Matter
- The Body and Society: Explorations in Social Theory, Second Edition (Theory, Culture and Society, Vol. 46) (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society) by Bryan S Turner in Back Matter
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- Cultural Bodies: Ethnography and Theory by Helen Thomas in Front Matter
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