Prologue -- Saints, pilgrimage, and miracles -- Life in the Middle Ages -- Saints -- Apparitions -- Pilgrimage and shrines -- Saints, pilgrimage, and healing -- Disease -- The role stress in illness -- Belief, hope, and healing -- Framing, confessing, and healing -- Appendix A: …
"Iconic images of medieval pilgrims, such as Chaucer's making their laborious way to Canterbury, conjure a distant time when faith was the only refuge of the ill and infirm, and thousands traveled great distances to pray for healing. Why, then, in an age of advanced biotechnolog…
In this work, Scott explores the realities of religious healing. He inquires into the power of relics, apparitions, and the transformative nature of sacred journeying and shines new light on the roles belief, hope, and emotion can play in healing.
John G. Lake, apostle to Africa
"The Next 90 Days Will Change Your Life! Is God still healing people today? Does He want to heal me? How do I receive my healing? People everywhere have always had questions about supernatural healing. Maybe you're one of them! Many of us want to believe that God still heals and…
Routledge library editions: Buddhism
by Zimmer, Heinrich, King, Winston L., Conze, Edward, Allen, G. F., Change, Garma C. C., Gyatso, Geshe Kelsang, Jayatilleke, K. N., Kapleau, Philip, Kodera, Takashi James, Ludowyk, E. F. C., Masefield, Peter, Murti, T. R. V., Venerable Nyanaponika Mahathera, Raju, P. T., Ross, Floyd, Smith, F. Harold, Sprung, Mervyn, Wayman, Alex
This book demonstrates the close link between medicine and Buddhism in early and medieval Japan. It may seem difficult to think of Japanese Buddhism as being linked to the realm of medical practices since religious healing is usually thought to be restricted to prayers for divin…
"Family physician Raymond Downing offers a bold critique of western medicine and sees medical care as one of the fallen ""principalities and powers"" in need of redemption. But Downing's hope lies beyond biomedicine--in biblical healing, especially the healing miracles of Jesus.…
"This edited collection represents an ongoing conversation for bringing healing cultures into suffering and evil. The pluralistic perspectives emerge from the creativity of this unique community of interpreters"--
"This edited collection represents an ongoing conversation for bringing healing cultures into suffering and evil. The pluralistic perspectives emerge from the creativity of this unique community of interpreters"--