Abracadabra! Postmodern Therapeutic Methods: Language as a Neo-Magical Tool
This paper argues that a new genre of therapy has appeared in the arena of contemporary spiritual alternative healing, which expresses an outlook never-before-seen in the history of medicine: postmodern therapy. Postmodern therapeutic methods (PTMs) express a popularization of postmodernist philosop...
| Published in: | Journal for the study of religions and ideologies |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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CEEOL
[2018]
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Journal for the study of religions and ideologies
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
The Postmodern
/ Alternative medicine
/ Therapy
/ Magic
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion AG Religious life; material religion AZ New religious movements |
| Further subjects: | B
Therapy
B Spirituality B Modern Philosophy B New Age B Language B Postmodern thought B Magic B Healing B Cam B Alternative Spiritualities |
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| Summary: | This paper argues that a new genre of therapy has appeared in the arena of contemporary spiritual alternative healing, which expresses an outlook never-before-seen in the history of medicine: postmodern therapy. Postmodern therapeutic methods (PTMs) express a popularization of postmodernist philosophy in regards to language's role in the therapeutic process, expressing a novel cosmology. These methods are illustrated in the paper, and then analyzed in comparison to two other groups of methods: traditional/occult magic, and modern medicine. Finally, PTMs are characterized as neo-magic, bearing features similar to modernistic outlook on the one hand, and features similar to pre-modern magic outlook on the other hand. Thus, these new outlook demonstrate a double appropriation and rejection of perceptions viewed as contradictory - traditional magic and secular science. |
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| ISSN: | 1583-0039 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of religions and ideologies
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