Teaching Religion and Healing

by Linda L. Barnes

Book Overview

The study of medicine and healing traditions is well developed in the discipline of anthropology. Most religious studies scholars, however, continue to assume that "medicine" and "biomedicine" are one and the same and that when religion and medicine are mentioned together, the reference is necessarily either to faith healing or bioethics. Scholars of religion also have tended to assume that religious healing refers to the practices of only a few groups,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195176448
• ISBN13: 9780195176445
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"