Disease, religion, and healing in Asia : collaborations and collisions
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Disease, religion, and healing in Asia : collaborations and collisions
(Routledge studies in Asian religion and philosophy, 14)
Routledge, 2015
Available at 2 libraries
  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
Recent academic and medical initiatives have highlighted the benefits of studying culturally embedded healing traditions that incorporate religious and philosophical viewpoints to better understand local and global healing phenomena. Capitalising on this trend, the present volume looks at the diverse models of healing that interplay with culture and religion in Asia.
Cutting across several Asian regions from Hong Kong to mainland China, Tibet, India, and Japan, the book addresses healing from a broader perspective and reflects a fresh new outlook on the complexities of Asian societies and their approaches to health. In exploring the convergences and collisions a society must negotiate, it shows the emerging urgency in promoting multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research on disease, religion and healing in Asia. Drawing on original fieldwork, contributors present their latest research on diverse local models of healing that occur when disease and religion meet in South and East Asian cultures. Revealing the symbiotic relationship of disease, religion and healing and their colliding values in Asia often undetected in healthcare research, the book draws attention to religious, political and social dynamics, issues of identity and ethics, practical and epistemological transformations, and analogous cultural patterns. It challenges the reader to rethink predominantly long-held Western interpretations of disease management and religion.
Making a significant contribution to the field of transcultural medicine, religious studies in Asia as well as to a better understanding of public health in Asia as a whole, it will be of interest to students and scholars of Health Studies, Asian Religions and Philosophy.
Table of Contents
Introduction Part I: Disease Management in Medical and Ritual Contexts 1. The management of sickness in an Indian medical vernacular 2.Like an Indian god: Saint Anthony of Padua in Tamil Nadu as a healer and exorcist 3.Devotion and affliction in the time of cholera: ritual healing, identity and resistance among Bengali Muslims 4. Wong Tai Sin: The divine and healing in Hong Kong Part II: Religious and Medical Explanatory Models 5. Ghost exorcism, memory, and healing in Hinduism 6. Storytelling and accountability for illness in Sanskrit medical literature Part III: Cultural Interfaces and Collisions 7. The Method-and-Wisdom model in the theoretical syncretism of traditional Mongolian medicine 8. Balancing Tradition Alongside a Progressively Scientific Tibetan Medical System 9. Diagnostic techniques of Chinese Traditional Medicine and their interface with the globalisation of medical practice 10. Healing Zen: Exploring the brain on bowing
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