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Disease, religion, and healing in Asia : collaborations and collisions
- Title
- Disease, religion, and healing in Asia : collaborations and collisions / edited by Ivette M. Vargas-O'Bryan and Zhou Xun.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
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- Description
- xii, 173 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Series Statement
- Routledge studies in Asian religion and philosophy ; 14
- Uniform Title
- Routledge studies in Asian religion and philosophy ; 14.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-6704
- ISBN
- 9781138023659
- 1138023655
- LCCN
- 2014022949
- OCLC
- 883647735
- Title
- Disease, religion, and healing in Asia : collaborations and collisions / edited by Ivette M. Vargas-O'Bryan and Zhou Xun.
- Publisher
- London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Routledge studies in Asian religion and philosophy ; 14Routledge studies in Asian religion and philosophy ; 14.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Vargas-O'Bryan, Ivette M.Zhou, Xun, 1968-
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-6704