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"Aiming to develop a less studied literary genre, this book provides a well-rounded picture of spiritual and physical diseases and their remedies as they were ingrained in the imagination and practices of Middle Eastern Abrahamic cultures, with a special emphasis of Christian communities (Greeks/Byzantines, Syrians, Armenians, Georgians, Ethiopians). The volume traces traditions dealing with the onset of a disease in the body and soul, the search for remedy, the maintenance of healing, and the engagement of these processes with faith-either through their affirmation in the public sphere or remaining within the personal framework, as in monastic traditions. A recurring presence in religious literature and the history of the intellectual world, the confrontation between disease and healing may well still be current for our modern understanding of the paths to seeking and maintaining the health of one's body and soul, without excluding the factor of faith as a core principle"--
Healing --- Spiritual healing --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- History.
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In the second half of the twentieth century, Reiki went from an obscure therapy practiced by a few thousand Japanese and Japanese Americans to a global phenomenon. By the early twenty-first century, people in nearly every corner of the world have undergone the initiations that authorize them to channel a cosmic energy-known as Reiki-to heal body, mind, and spirit. They lay hands on themselves and others, use secret symbols and incantations to send Reiki to distant recipients, and strive to follow five precepts to cultivate their spiritual growth. Reiki's international rise and development is due to the work of Hawayo Takata (1900-1980), a Hawai'i-born Japanese American woman who brought Reiki out of Japan and adapted it for thousands of students in Hawai'i and North America, shaping interconnections across the North Pacific region as well as cultural transformations over the transwar period spanning World War II. Alternate Currents: Reiki's Circulation in the Twentieth-Century North Pacific analyzes how Takata, from her training in Japan in the mid-1930s to her death in Iowa in 1980, built a vast trans-Pacific network that connected Japanese American laborers on Hawai'i plantations to social elites in Tokyo, Hollywood, and New York; middle class housewives in American suburbs; and off-the-grid tree planters in the mountains of British Columbia. Using recently uncovered archival materials and original oral histories, this book examines how these relationships between healer and patient, master and disciple, became deeply infused with values of their time and place and how they interplayed with Reiki's circulation, performance, and meanings along with broader cultural shifts in the twentieth-century North Pacific. Highly readable and informative, each chapter is structured around a period in the life of Takata, the charismatic, rags-to-riches architect of the network in which Reiki spread for decades. Alternate Currents explores Reiki as an exemplary transnational spiritual therapy, demonstrating how lived practices transcend artificial distinctions between religion and medicine, and circulate in global systems while maintaining strong connections with the practices' homeland.
Reiki (Healing system) --- Takata, Hawayo Kawamuri, --- Alternative health and spirituality. --- Asian Americans. --- Reiki. --- spiritual healing. --- transnational studies. --- transpacific. --- universal life energy.
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In the ancient Mediterranean world, individuals routinely looked for divine aid to cure physical afflictions. 'Contested Cures' argues that the inevitability of sickness and injury made people willing to experiment with seemingly beneficial techniques, even if they originated in a foreign cultural or religious tradition.
Identity (Psychology) --- Magic --- Spiritual healing --- HISTORY / Ancient / Greece. --- Divine healing --- Faith-cure --- Faith healing --- Spiritual therapies --- Healing --- Miracles --- Magick --- Necromancy --- Sorcery --- Spells --- Occultism --- Personal identity --- Personality --- Self --- Ego (Psychology) --- Individuality --- History --- Religious aspects --- To 1500 --- Middle East --- Rome (Empire) --- Palaestina (region)
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This revision of the author's 1989 book includes three new chapters on cult developments in the 1990's, spiritual recovery movements, and alternative medicine. There are also 32 new photographs.
Cults. --- Sects. --- Psychology, Religious. --- Spiritual healing. --- Divine healing --- Faith-cure --- Faith healing --- Spiritual therapies --- Healing --- Miracles --- Psychology of religion --- Religion --- Religions --- Religious psychology --- Psychology and religion --- Denominations, Religious --- Religions, Modern --- Religious denominations --- Cults --- Alternative religious movements --- Cult --- Cultus --- Marginal religious movements --- New religions --- New religious movements --- NRMs (Religion) --- Religious movements, Alternative --- Religious movements, Marginal --- Religious movements, New --- Sects --- Religious aspects --- Psychological aspects --- Psychology --- Charismatic groups --- group cohesiveness --- shared beliefs --- altered consciousness --- religious sects --- the Unification Church --- spiritual recovery --- alternative medicine --- healing movements --- alternative healing --- cults --- coercion
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