Spiritual transformation and healing
Subtitle: anthropological, theological, neuroscientific, and clinical perspectives
By: [edited by] Joan D. Koss-Chioino and Philip Hefner
Contributors: Koss-Chioino, Joan; Hefner, Philip J
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Conversion; Healing -- Religious aspects
Description: A new volume exploring spiritual transformation from various disciplinary perspectives.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Finding our way through new terrain; title: Exploring spiritual transformation and healing : fundamental issues / Philip Hefner and Joan D. Koss-Chioino; title: The meaning of spiritual transformation / Kenneth I. Pargament; title: The spirit of spiritual healing in the United States / David J. Hufford and Mary Ann Bucklin; title: Traditional and indigenous healing systems : anthropological perspectives; title: Spiritual transformation and radical empathy in ritual healing and therapeutic relationships / Joan D. Koss-Chioino; title: Radical empathy, gender, and shamanic healing : examples from Peru / Bonnie Glass-Coffin; title: Sustainable faith? : reconfiguring shamanic healing in Siberia / Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer; title: The making of a shaman : a comparative study of Inuit, African, and Nepalese shaman initiation / Edith L.B. Turner; title: Spiritual transformation and healing from religious perspectives; title: Spiritual transformation and healing : an encounter with the sacred / Philip Hefner; title: Spiritual transformation and healing in light of an evolutionary theology / Karl E. Peters; title: Personal transformation : perspectives from psychology and Christianity / Fraser Watts; title: Spiritual growth, cognition, and complexity : faith as a dynamic process / Carol Rausch Albright; title: Neuroscientific perspectives on spiritual transformation and healing; title: The neurobiology of spiritual transformation / Andrew Newberg; title: Narrative in holistic healing : empathy, sympathy, and simulation theory / Michael L. Spezio; title: Healing of the self-in-context : memory, plasticity, and spiritual practice / David Allen Hogue; title: Clinical perspectives on spiritual transformation and healing; title: Spirituality, spiritual experiences, and spiritual transformations in the face of HIV / Gail Ironson, Heidemarie Kremer, and Dale S. Ironson; title: Spiritual engagement and transformation in cancer patients : the experience of the patient, the role of the physician / Jean L. Kristeller and Leonard M. Hummel