Disease, Religion and Healing in Asia: Collaborations and Collisions

ISBN-13: 9781138491625 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 174 str.

Ivette M. Vargas-O'Bryan; Zhou Xun

Opis

This book looks at the diverse models of healing that interplay with culture and religion in Asia. Cutting across several Asian regions from Hong Kong to mainland China, Tibet, India, and Japan, it addresses healing from a broader perspective and reflects a fresh new outlook on the complexities of Asian societies and their approach to health. Drawing on original fieldwork, contributors present their latest research on diverse local models of healing that occur when disease and religion meet in South and East Asian cultures. It challenges the reader to rethink predominantly long-held Western interpretations of disease management and religion.

Spis treści

Introduction Part I: Disease Management in Medical and Ritual Contexts 1. The management of sickness in an Indian medical vernacular 2.Like an Indian god: Saint Anthony of Padua in Tamil Nadu as a healer and exorcist 3.Devotion and affliction in the time of cholera: ritual healing, identity and resistance among Bengali Muslims 4. Wong Tai Sin: The divine and healing in Hong Kong Part II: Religious and Medical Explanatory Models 5. Ghost exorcism, memory, and healing in Hinduism 6. Storytelling and accountability for illness in Sanskrit medical literature Part III: Cultural Interfaces and Collisions 7. The Method-and-Wisdom model in the theoretical syncretism of traditional Mongolian medicine 8. Balancing Tradition Alongside a Progressively Scientific Tibetan Medical System 9. Diagnostic techniques of Chinese Traditional Medicine and their interface with the globalisation of medical practice 10. Healing Zen: Exploring the brain on bowing