Health and Religious Rituals in South Asia ebook
Health and Religious Rituals in South Asia ebook
Health and Religious Rituals in South Asia.cDr. Fabrizio M. Ferrari
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Author: Dr. Fabrizio M. Ferrari
Number of Pages: 256 pages
Published Date: 28 Feb 2011
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9780415561457
File size: 37 Mb
File Name: health.and.religious.rituals.in.south.asia.pdf
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Drawing on original fieldwork, this book develops a fresh methodological approach to the study of indigenous understandings of disease as possession, and looks at healing rituals in different South Asian cultural contexts. Contributors discuss the meaning of 'disease', 'possession' and 'healing' in relation to South Asian religions, including Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism and Sikhism, and how South Asians deal with the divine in order to negotiate health and wellbeing. The book goes on to look at goddesses, gods and spirits as a cause and remedy of a variety of diseases, a study that has proved significant to the ethics and politics of responding to health issues. It contributes to a consolidation and promotion of indigenous ways as a method of understanding physical and mental imbalances through diverse conceptions of the divine. Chapters offer a fascinating overview of healing rituals in South Asia and provide a full-length, sustained discussion of the interface between religion, ritual, and folklore. The book presents a fresh insight into studies of Asian Religion and the History of Medicine.
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Health and Religious Rituals in South Asia.cDr. Fabrizio M. Ferrari
Author: Dr. Fabrizio M. Ferrari
Number of Pages: 256 pages
Published Date: 28 Feb 2011
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN: 9780415561457
File size: 37 Mb
File Name: health.and.religious.rituals.in.south.asia.pdf
Download Link: health and religious rituals in south asia
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Drawing on original fieldwork, this book develops a fresh methodological approach to the study of indigenous understandings of disease as possession, and looks at healing rituals in different South Asian cultural contexts. Contributors discuss the meaning of 'disease', 'possession' and 'healing' in relation to South Asian religions, including Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism and Sikhism, and how South Asians deal with the divine in order to negotiate health and wellbeing. The book goes on to look at goddesses, gods and spirits as a cause and remedy of a variety of diseases, a study that has proved significant to the ethics and politics of responding to health issues. It contributes to a consolidation and promotion of indigenous ways as a method of understanding physical and mental imbalances through diverse conceptions of the divine. Chapters offer a fascinating overview of healing rituals in South Asia and provide a full-length, sustained discussion of the interface between religion, ritual, and folklore. The book presents a fresh insight into studies of Asian Religion and the History of Medicine.
Read online Health and Religious Rituals in South Asia Buy and read online Health and Religious Rituals in South Asia Download and read Health and Religious Rituals in South Asia for pc, mac, kindle, readers Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook Health and Religious Rituals in South Asia