Spiritual transformation and healing: anthropological, theological, neuroscientific, and clinical perspectives

Finding our way through new terrain -- Exploring spiritual transformation and healing : fundamental issues / Philip Hefner and Joan D. Koss-Chioino -- The meaning of spiritual transformation / Kenneth I. Pargament -- The spirit of spiritual healing in the United States / David Hufford and Mary Ann B...

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Contributors: Koss-Chioino, Joan (Editor) ; Koss-Chioino, Joan D. (Other) ; Hefner, Philip (Other)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Lanham, MD [u.a.] AltaMira Press 2006
In:Year: 2006
Volumes / Articles:Show volumes/articles.
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Spirit healing / Ethnology / Neurobiology
B Healing / Religious experience / Religious development
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Conversion
B Healing Religious aspects
B Bibliography
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Summary:Finding our way through new terrain -- Exploring spiritual transformation and healing : fundamental issues / Philip Hefner and Joan D. Koss-Chioino -- The meaning of spiritual transformation / Kenneth I. Pargament -- The spirit of spiritual healing in the United States / David Hufford and Mary Ann Bucklin -- Traditional and indigenous healing systems : anthropological perspectives -- Spiritual transformation and radical empathy in ritual healing and therapeutic relationships / Joan D. Koss-Chioino -- Radical empathy, gender, and shamanic healing : examples from Peru / Bonnie Glass-Coffin -- Sustainable faith? : reconfiguring shamanic healing in Siberia / Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer -- The making of a shaman : a comparative study of inupiat, African, and Nepalese shaman initiation / Edith Turner -- Spiritual transformation and healing from religious perspectives -- Spiritual transformation and healing--an encounter with the sacred / Philip Hefner -- Spiritual transformation and healing in light of an evolutionary theology / Karl E. Peters -- Personal transformation : perspectives from psychology and Christianity / Fraser Watts -- Spiritual growth, cognition, and complexity : faith as a dynamic process / Carol Rausch Albright -- Neuroscientific perspectives on spiritual transformation and healing -- The neurobiology of spiritual transformation / Andrew Newberg -- Narrative in holistic healing : empathy, sympathy, and simulation theory / Michael L. Spezio -- Healing of the self-in-context : memory, plasticity, and spiritual practice / David Hogue -- Clinical perspectives on spiritual transformation and healing -- Spirituality, spiritual experiences, and spiritual transformations in the face of HIV / Gail Ironson, Heidemarie Kremer, and Dale Ironson -- Spiritual engagement and transformation in cancer patients : the experience of the patient, the role of the physician / Jean L. Kristeller and Leonard Hummel
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:0759108668