... resolution and restore peace in the face of violence. We press for better alternatives and describe a practice of healing and restoration traditional to Native Hawaiians called Ho‘oponopono in work among youth and families. juvenile justice system justice ho‘oponopono Pukui Mary Kawena et al Shook E...

... affect kin who may live elsewhere under severe conditions characterized by a scarcity of land, food, animals, or even water. As healers, tromba mediums are specialists who help others cope with the uncertainties and disorder of life. Local systems of healing reveal the nature of affliction...

... war of the 1980s and 1990s. healing HIV AIDS misfortune amashwa development homestead umuzi neoliberalism bridewealth ilobolo divination Johannesburg Eshowe sacrifice umswane in ritual individualism witchcraft bile gallbladder inyongo British Social Anthropology fruition kinship...

...This chapter uses the myth motifs of the Navajo healing ceremonies to classify the various ceremonies according to whether they include shamanic themes of soul loss, possession, and trickster figures. The Coyote-Begochidi tradition does not represent a survival from the distant hunting...

...This concluding chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the work of liberal Protestants concerning medicine and healing. It contends that liberal Protestants championed a metaphor hard to counter by invoking healing as the way to achieve their goals both political and spiritual...

...The concluding chapter recaps how and why the concept of humanity does violence to the common good. It then offers new, radical ways of healing social suffering, beyond humanity and humanitarianism. After detailing a personal trajectory, it addresses the question of how to better reach...

...Medicine in the Eastern Mediterranean emerged against the backdrop of a historically older healing. Medicine in the Eastern Mediterranean needed as a precondition science, an idea that there are inherent laws independent of place, time, and person. The development of such a science in ancient...

... of the body's interior had similarly been maintained in writings on healing. Han dynasty illness attributed to demons and microorganisms microorganisms spirit worms god s belief in grain infestations leprosy lumbago stroke blood body Chinese diagrams of healing in ancient Greece magic spells qi...

... into premedical healing at a time when centuries-long wars had damaged faith in morality and in the suggestibility of behavior through the appeal to good ethics. The new pathogens such as dampness, wind, and heat behaved in accordance with morality. The doctrine of the causation of illness and of normal functions...

...The idea that a body as an organism has self-interest and tries to heal its own wounds and overcome difficult crises on its own is based on the model image of the self-regulating, autonomous polis. The polis had transformed itself from the monarchy and the rule of the noble families...

... as someone who finally paid attention to energy, life energy, or a healing dedicated to energy. It reassured that even if the conflicts over energy cannot be solved in distant lands, they could at least be solved in one's own body. This represents a start, with a likely bright future. energy crisis Germany...

...In the Greek world, seers were the most authoritative experts in all matters pertaining to religion. Their competence was exceptionally broad, encompassing many different forms of divination, as well as healing and purification. Seers could be found in the entourage of the wealthy...

...This chapter transitions from language to concerns about embodiment and bodily boundaries, as it ethnographically depicts and addresses speaking in tongues (also known as glossolalia), healing, and demonic attack as instances of the diagrammatic miraculous. It concludes by arguing that demonic...

...This book looks at the origins, meaning, and uses of Conjure—the African American tradition of healing and harming that evolved from African, European, and American elements—from the slavery period to well into the twentieth century. Illuminating a world that is dimly understood by both scholars...

...Ngoma, in Bantu, means drum, song, performance, and healing cult or association. A widespread form of ritual healing in Central and Southern Africa, it is fully investigated here for the first time and interpreted in a contemporary context. This book's study incorporates drumming...

...Charged with restoring harmony and relieving pain, the Malay shaman places his patients in a trance and encourages them to express their talents, drives, personality traits—the “Inner Winds” of Malay medical lore—in a kind of performance. These healing ceremonies, formerly viewed by Western...

... the recalcitrance of tragedy and the meaning of healing in attempts to remake the world....

...This chapter explores the relationship between African American supernaturalism and healing. Ever since the slavery period, black people in the United States have retained distinctive ideas and practices concerning sickness, its causes, and cures. African Americans viewed healing as an integral...

...This chapter examines developments of liberal Protestants of forms of energetic healing that depended precisely on embracing modern medicine, and modern technologies more broadly, as conduits of the spirit to the flesh. It traces Protestant technological supernaturalism through three related groups...

...This chapter focuses on the spiritual healing of liberal Protestants. It describes the so-called Saint Matthias scandal and the healing works of Anglican priest Canon G. Moore Smith and Reverend Alex Holmes. It explains that spiritual interventionists focused largely on the recesses of sin...