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The doctrine and practice of healing through faith has been a hallmark of Pentecostalism since its inception and helps to account for the widespread appeal of the movement. While “divine healing,” as it is called by insiders, has brought hope to the sick, it has also been a source of disenchantment and controversy. The present study offers a close look at the teaching of four major ministers of healing in the twentieth-century United States. The author distinguishes between the healing evangelists and pastoral ministers of healing who react to them. This book discusses in detail the merits of both schools and the author proposes a solution to the problems inherent in the two paradigms under scrutiny.

Spiritual healing. --- Healing --- Religious aspects --- Christianity.

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"Signs of God reveals why discussion of the nature of miracles is of central rather than marginal importance where belief in God is concerned. Miracles cannot be shunted to one side as an embarrassing hangover from a 'pre-scientific age'. Miracles have played an important role in the history of all the major world religions, and many religious believers claim that they continue to do so. Yet they have also been criticized from a philosophical viewpoint as incompatible with a belief in laws of nature, and those who seek to have their religious beliefs properly attuned to the modern world often prefer to do without them. This accessible book examines the nature of miracles both in philosophical and historical terms, and concludes that, whether or not miracles happen, it is difficult to see how religious belief could survive without them."--Provided by publisher.

Miracles. --- God --- Marvelous, The --- Miracle workers --- Spiritual healing --- Supernatural

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"A comprehensive ethnographic study of the ritual healing and spirit mediumship tradition called kusamira. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in the Buganda and Busoga regions of southern Uganda, this study demonstrates how the performance of music in kusamira ritual supports the creation and maintenance of social relations that serve mutual aid and health goals. The author deploys performance as a category of analysis to document how a social reproduction of well-being serves as both the goal and the process of kusamira ritual. The study also articulates the relevance of expressive culture-specifically ritual performances of the kusamira repertory-to understanding African modes of knowledge production within broader discourses on development and public health"--

Music therapy --- Music, Influence of --- Spiritual healing --- Uganda

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"Burn out. Two words that haunt those in high stress jobs, especially in the medical profession. Long hours and the literal life-and-death nature of the field creates expectations to not only be on call at all hours, but to be at one's best, even at 3:00 AM after a twenty-hour shift. So much energy is devoted to the care of others that self-care is forgotten. Yet, more are noticing and research confirms that self-care is needed, not only for personal sanity but also for quality of work. Unwell medical professionals are not the best at treating others. And this self-care includes not just rest, food, and water, but a deeper care, one that tends the spiritual side as well. To both the spiritually active and the spiritually resistant, hospital chaplain William Dorman offers a guide to understand a more comprehensive, full-bodied self-care. Each chapter begins with case studies, concrete experiences that help unpack abstract concepts which bring much needed peace to stressed individuals. Dorman also structures each chapter to end with prayers and action steps, which offer more concrete ways to care for the self. From working as a hospital chaplain for over 18 years, and serving as the director of chaplaincy services for the largest integrated health care system in New Mexico, Rev. Dorman recognizes the stresses that come to those who have made it their profession to heal others. Healers need healing too--and this guide is the first step"--Provided by publisher.

Medical personnel. --- Spiritual healing. --- Psychology and religion. --- Burn out (Psychology)

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Looks at perceptions of the miraculous in a variety of contemporary South Asian religious traditions-Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity.

Miracles. --- God --- Marvelous, The --- Miracle workers --- Spiritual healing --- Supernatural --- South Asia --- Religion.