Fasting

Fasting: an exceptional human experience

by Fredricks, Randi

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Fasting : an exceptional human experience / Randi Fredricks.

Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2013.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):AuthorHouse
  • Place of Publication:Bloomington, IN
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2013.

The Physical Object

  • Description:xii, 533 pages ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781477294130, 1477294139
  • oclc:ocn851097089
  • Dewey Decimal:613.2/5

Table of Contents

1. Types of fasting -- 2. Planning a fast -- 3. The physiological process of fasting -- 4. Research on fasting in medicine -- 5. Complementary and alternative medicine and fasting -- 6. Research on fasting and mental health -- 7. Fasting and transpersonal psychology -- 8. Fasting and depression -- 9. The practice of asceticism -- 10. Fasting in religious and spiritual traditions -- 11. Inedia in religious mystics and catholic saints -- 12. Fasting, eating disorders, and food addiction -- 13. Hunger artists, fasting girls, and breatharians -- 14. Hunger striking and political fasting -- 15. Criticisms and contraindications of fasting -- 16. Suggestions for future research on fasting and psychology -- 17. The psychospiritual effects of fasting.

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Subjects

Fasting Fasting -- Health aspects Fasting -- Psychological aspects Fasting -- Religious aspects Grèves de la faim Hunger strikes Jeune Jeûne -- Aspect psychologique Jeûne -- Aspect religieux

Writers

Fredricks, Randi

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