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Christianity, Witchcraft, Magic, and Healing in Africa
Christianity, healing, and witchcraft beliefs and practices have been closely connected in African history, but their relations have also vexed...
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Zambian Pentecostalism and Traditional Healing
This chapter explores how Zambian Pentecostals have adapted their theology of miracles and healing in the context of COVID-19. Employing theology of...
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Healing in African Spirituality and Ethics
In this chapter, it was argued that African spirituality has contributed to healing in Southern Africa. I will argue that Christian spirituality and...
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Church as a Place of Healing from Trauma
After the dire warning bells of the previous chapters are sounded, this chapter recounts narratives of healing from trauma within faith communities....
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Healing Systems of Well-Being and People-Place Interactions: Complexity, Context, and Connections
In Chap. 1 , we briefly discussed place as a central ingredient to psycho-social-spiritual resources...
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#MagicMantras: Bhaktamar Mantra Healing Between Jainism and the Spiritual Marketplace
This article addresses Bhaktamar Mantra Healing (BMH), a healing practice based on a popular Jain stotra . After a preliminary discussion of Tantra...
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The Healer’s Dharma: Interfacing Dharma and Healing from Śākta-Tantric Perspectives
It can be insisted that, since time immemorial, one of the fundamental functions of religion across the globe has been to heal people in various...
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Towards Watery and Vibrating Bodies: Finnish Bodies Learning Tibetan Sound Healing
When becoming interested in new spiritual and holistic practices, people also learn new ways to imagine and enact bodies and embodiment. In the...
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Racial Justice Protests Create Spaces of Hope and Healing: The Racialization of Space and Trauma in Contexts of Racial Tensions
Spaces are boundless settings in which human experiences take shape. They provide contexts that can support the formation and maintenance of social...
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Embodying Qi in the Nordic Countries: The Healing Practices of Zhineng Qigong
This chapter examines the reception of Zhineng qigong in the Nordic countries and aims to answer questions about the results and experiences the...
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Mind, Body, and Spirit: Metaphysical Healing in America
Metaphysical religion appeals to contemporary Americans for many reasons. One of them is that metaphysical thought provides an intellectual...
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Healing Creation or Hearing Confession: Protestant Liturgy and the Role of Agency, Sickness, and Repentance in the Current Ecological Crisis
This essay observes the recent liturgical trend mainline Protestant traditions of using the language of sickness and healing when describing the...
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Religious Trauma, Queer Identities Map** the Complexities of Being LGBTQA+ in Evangelical Churches
In a polarised milieu that too often posits “queer” and “Christian” as competing realms, this book explores the complexities of identity development,...
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The Healing Touch Saint: Baba Chamliyal Shrine at the International Border in Samba District
The shrine situated at the international borderInternational border between IndiaIndia and PakistanPakistan in village Chamliyal of SambaSamba...
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On The Rasā’il of the Ikhwān al Ṣafā’ and Bonaventure’s Mind’s Road into God: Tracing Mystical Pathways Toward Union with God and Healing the Earth—A Comparative Study of Excerpts from their “Books of the Creatures”
Cross-reading two classical texts leads to a cross-pollination of ideas in this chapter to investigate how beliefs in a vision of creaturely kinship...
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Eastern Practices and Nordic Bodies Lived Religion, Spirituality and Healing in the Nordic Countries
This volume explores the reception, development and construction of Eastern practices in the Nordic countries. The focus is on spirituality, medicine...
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Porkhani and Ishani: Women Healers in the Turkmen Community in Iran
The Turkmen of Iran migrated from Central Asia westward and took up residence in northeastern Iran some ten centuries ago. They have been able to...
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Intimate Encounters at the Unhomely Home: Reading Morrison’s Home and the Gospel of John’s Homecoming Story
This essay delineates how transnational feminist biblical hermeneutics can intervene in the intimate and often unsettling encounter between African...
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Indigenous Belief Systems, Commercialisation, and New Prophetic Movements
The common and known trend of commercialising religion, is when pastors solicit money and other gifts from their congregants and/or admirers, in...