Religion and healing in Native America : pathways for renewal
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Religion and healing in Native America : pathways for renewal
(Religion, health, and healing)
Praeger, 2008
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
What it means to be healthy or to heal is not universal from culture to culture, from religion to religion. Indeed, in many cultures religion and healing are intimately tied to each other. In Native American communities healing is conceived as the place where ideas about the body and selfhood are brought to light and expressed within healing traditions. Healing is defined as self-making, and illness as whatever compromises one's ability to be oneself. This book explores religion and healing in Native America, emphasizing the lived experience of indigenous religious practices and their role in health and healing. Indigenous traditions of healing in North America emphasize that the healthy self is defined by its relationship with its human, spiritual, and ecological communities.
Here, Crawford brings together first-hand accounts, personal experience, and narrative observations of Native American religion and healing to present a richly textured portrait of the intersection of tradition, cultural revival, spirituality, ceremony, and healing. These are not descriptions of traditions isolated from their historical, cultural, and social context, but intimately located within the communities from which they come. These portraits range from discussions of pre-colonial healing traditions to examples where traditional approaches exist along with other cultural traditions-both Native and non-native. At the heart of all the essays is a concern for the ways in which diverse Native communities have understood what it means to be healthy, and the role of spirituality in achieving wellness. Readers will come away with a better understanding not just of religion and healing in Native American communities, but of Native American communities in general, and how they live their lives on an everyday basis.
Table of Contents
Series Foreword- Susan Starr Sered and Linda L. Barnes
Foreword -Ins M. Talamantez
Preface- Suzanne J. Crawford OBrien
1. Introduction -Suzanne J. Crawford OBrien
2. Lightning Followed Me: Contemporary Navajo Therapeutic Strategies for Cancer- Maureen Trudelle Schwarz
3. This Path Will Heal Our People: Healing the Soul Wound of Diabetes- Michelle M. Jacob
4. Alcohol Abuse Recovery and Prevention as Spiritual Practice- Dennis F. Kelley
5. Figuring It Out: Sundancing and Storytelling in the Lakota Tradition- Larissa Petrillo
6. Restoring Sacred Connection with Native Women in the Inner City-Denise Nadeau and Alannah Young
7. Healing Generations in the South Puget Sound- Suzanne J. Crawford OBrien
8. The Stories Are Very Powerful: A Native American Perspective on Health, Illness and Narrative- Eva Marie Garroutte and Kathleen Delores Westcott
9. If All These Great Stories Were Told, Great Stories Will Come! -Rodney Frey, Tom Yellowtail, and Cliff SiJohn
Afterword - Thomas Csordas
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