1st Edition
Health and Healing in Minority Religions
Contents
Introduction: What about my Body? Concepts of Body, Health and Healing in Minority Religions
Eileen Barker
1. Health and Healing in the Watch Tower Organisation
George D. Chryssides
2. Healing and Holiness in Christian Scientists' Practice
Robin Harragin Hussey
3. Reclaiming Eschatology: Healing and a Female Messiah
Alastair Lockhart
4. Health and Wealth in Pentecostal/Charismatic Christianity
Martin Lindhardt and Simon Coleman
5. Healing in an African Context
Jean S. La Fontaine
6. Health and Healing in Contemporary Paganism
Vivianne Crowley
7. Working with a Body: Flexible Conceptual Models in Contemporary Yoga
Suzanne Newcombe
8. Healing Narratives in the Jeon-gyeong
Edward Irons
9. The Magic of Texts: Religious Healing Among Lubavitcher Hasidim
Simon Dein
10. G. I. Gurdjieff on Health and Healing: Hypnotism, Sacred Dances, Diet, Physical Labour, and Drugs
Carole M. Cusack
11. Illness as Impurity: Practices for Cleansing and Purifying the Body
Sarah Harvey
12. The Psychology of Belief in and use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)
Christopher C. French
13. The Fight Against Undesired Health and Healing Practices Labelled As “Sectarian Abuses” in France
Patricia Duval.
Index
Biography
Sarah Harvey is Senior Research Officer at Inform, the educational charity based at King’s College London.
Eileen Barker, OBE, FBA, is Professor Emerita in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She founded Inform in 1988.
