Medicine and Religion are Not-Two: Sensory Economies of Knowledge in “Zen Shiatsu”

This paper considers the relationship between religion, medicine and the secular by paying attention to the sensory dimensions of knowledge practices in shiatsu, a Japanese manual therapy. Strongly shaped by the secularist ethos of the postwar US occupation, shiatsu in Japan has been rationalized ac...

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Main Author: Skrivanic, Peter (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage [2018]
In: Studies in religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 47, Issue: 2, Pages: 201-222
Further subjects:B shiatsu therapy
B sensory economies of knowledge
B CAM (complementary and alternative medicines)
B Biomedicine
B Objectivity
B Subjectivity
B Visuality
B Touch
B Medicine and religion
B Secularism
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)