Healing Touch Controversies
Healing touch is one of the gifts of our humanity. It has been used since antiquity in many cultures around the world. Healing touch has frequently been the source of controversy, however. The controversies explored are related to the historical use and abuse of healing touch in the church, the cont...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V.
[1997]
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In: |
Journal of religion and health
Year: 1997, Volume: 36, Issue: 3, Pages: 221-230 |
Further subjects: | B
Energy Field
B Healing Touch B Therapeutic Touch |
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Summary: | Healing touch is one of the gifts of our humanity. It has been used since antiquity in many cultures around the world. Healing touch has frequently been the source of controversy, however. The controversies explored are related to the historical use and abuse of healing touch in the church, the controversy surrounding the notion of energy fields, and that surrounding therapeutic touch as a modern healing-touch therapy. |
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ISSN: | 1573-6571 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and health
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1023/A:1027405007064 |