Heal Thyself: Spirituality, Medicine, and the Distortion of Christianity

by Joel Shuman and Keith G. Meador

Book Overview

In recent years, a movement stressing a causal relationship between spirituality and good health has captured the public imagination. Told that research demonstrates that people of strong faith are healthier, physicians and clergy alike urge us to become more religious.
The religion and health movement, as it has become known, has attracted its fair share of skeptics. While most root their criticism in science or secularism, the authors of Heal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019515469X
• ISBN13: 9780195154696
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

This changed my life!

I have been a researcher for the past two decades who has struggled with the arbitrary separation between my research and my Christianity. This book has been my wake up call to filter my research through my Christianity.

A Must Read

The reduction of medicine to physical mechanics and the human person to individual unit in the social machine is a troubling phenomenon to those of us who take integration and/or religious practice seriously. Authors Shuman and Meador explain how we got to this place in clear and mostly impartial terms. It does a great deal to clear up how therapy and social Darwinism got mixed up with religion and how the household of faith was transformed into the late capitalist economy.