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Body, Meaning, Healing

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  • © 2002

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  1. Thomas J. Csordas
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Part of the book series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion (CAR)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Thomas J. Csordas
      Pages 1-8

  3. Charismatic Transformations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. The Rhetoric of Transformation in Ritual Healing

      • Thomas J. Csordas
      Pages 11-57

    3. Embodiment as a Paradigm for Anthropology

      • Thomas J. Csordas
      Pages 58-87

    4. A Handmaid’s Tale

      • Thomas J. Csordas
      Pages 88-99

    5. The Affliction of Martin

      • Thomas J. Csordas
      Pages 100-137

  4. Navajo Transformations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139
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    2. Ritual Healing and the Politics of Identity in Contemporary Navajo Society

      • Thomas J. Csordas
      Pages 141-164

    3. Talk to Them So They Understand

      • Thomas J. Csordas
      Pages 165-193

    4. The Sore that Does Not Heal

      • Thomas J. Csordas
      Pages 194-218

    5. Words from the Holy People

      • Thomas J. Csordas
      Pages 219-237

  5. Modulations of Embodiment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 239-239
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    2. Somatic Modes of Attention

      • Thomas J. Csordas
      Pages 241-259

    3. Shades of Representation and Being in Virtual Reality

      • Thomas J. Csordas
      Pages 260-284

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 285-321
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Exactly where is the common ground between religion and medicine in phenomena described as 'religious healing?' In what sense is the human body a cultural phenomenon and not merely a biological entity? Drawing on over twenty years of research on topics ranging from Navajo and Catholic Charismatic ritual healing to the cultural and religious implications of virtual reality in biomedical technology, Body, Meaning, Healing sensitively examines these questions about human experience and the meaning of being human. In recognizing the way that the meaningfulness of our existence as bodily beings is sometimes created in the encounter between suffering and the sacred, these penetrating ethnographic studies elaborate an experimental understanding of the therapeutic process, and trace the outlines of a cultural phenomenology grounded in embodiment.

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'...sets a new standard for exploring the cultural, phenomenological, religious and even theological aspects of health and wholeness.' - Amos Young, Religious Studies Review

About the author

THOMAS J. CSORDAS is Armington Professor of Anthropology and Religion at Case Western Reserve University and author of The Sacred Self and Language, Charisma, and Creativity.

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