Body/Meaning/Healing (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: July 19, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780312293925
Subjects: Cultural studies; Social & cultural anthropology; Social Science; Religion - World Religions; Sociology; Anthropology - Cultural; Comparative Religion; Ethnic Studies - General; Religion / Comparative Religion; Social Science / Ethnic Studies; Social Science-Anthropology - Cultural; Social Science-Ethnic Studies - General; Anthropology - General; Body, Human; Indians of North America; Religion; Religious aspects; Spiritual healing
First sentence: Healing at its most human is not an escape into irreality and mystification, but an intensification of the encounter between suffering and hope at the moment in which it finds a voice, where the anguished clash of bare life and raw existence emerges from muteness into articulation.