Spiritual healing : scientific and religious perspectives /
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Imprint: | Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011. |
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Description: | xiv, 207 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8303530 |
Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1. Conceptual issues in spiritual healing
- 2. The historical Jesus and healing: Jesus' miracles in psychosocial context
- 3. The theology of spiritual healing
- 4. Healing the spirit: mystical Judaism, religious texts and medicine
- 5. Conceptualizations of spiritual healing: Christian and secular
- 6. The psychodynamics of spiritual healing and the power of mother kissing it better
- 7. Spiritual healing in the context of the human need for safeness, connectedness and warmth: a biopsychosocial approach
- 8. Modelling the biomedical role of spirituality through breast cancer research
- 9. Spirituality and health: assessing the evidence
- 10. Relating spiritual healing and science: some critical reflections
- 11. Concluding integration
- Bibliography
- Index