Throughout history art has been regarded as an avenue for expression, healing, and a creative outlet for humanity. From simple cave drawings to detailed and expressive paintings no matter the artistic ability, the intention is to allow an escape from reality and an opening of th…
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Sacred texts authored in antiquity present a challenge for contemporary religious practitioners because there is always a question regarding how to interpret and apply the message today. Prominent Pentecostal theologian and disability theorist Amos Yong faces this challenge conc…
This dissertation explores the spiritual, artistic, and activist, lives and works of Chicana artists Cherríe Moraga and Lila Downs. It argues that these artists navigate their mestizaje, or mixed blood experiences, through their artwork to heal their soul wounds and transform th…
This dissertation analyzes experiences of self and identity in “modern” Central Java, Indonesia, through narratives of mental affliction and healing. These stories of individual and social suffering reveal how personal desires and public ideals are expressed and contested in an …
This study employed a phenomenological perspective that explored, through thematic analysis, the structure of the lived experience of twenty-four women healers in the state of Maine. This perspective combined a focus on the overall meaning of the healing practices being investig…
Bone homeostasis, fracture, and fracture healing process identification, modeling, control and simulation using soft computing methodologies are presented. Although the focus is on the fracture healing process, models of bone homeostasis and fracture occurrence are developed to …
This study, Bodies in Contexts: Holistic Ideals of Health, Healing, and Wellness in an American Orisha Community, examines how Orisha priests' notions of the human body affect their holistic understanding of health and healing as well as how they define well-being. Specifically,…
This thesis focuses on the socio-cultural and anthropological aspects of Tibetan medicine in contemporary Russia and investigates how Tibetan medicine is practised, consumed and represented in two major Russian cities, Moscow and St Petersburg. It is the first case-study of such…
Healing and promoting spiritual growth is a critical element of pastoral care among terminal cancer patients. Assisting patients in managing their terminal illness is an important challenge to chaplains. Facilitation of a sense of healing is not only physical but also spiritual.…
This theoretical study encompasses a theory of authentic self-love as a healing phenomenon in relational, systemic psychotherapy, utilizing selected psychological, philosophical, theological and aesthetic interdisciplinary literature, texts ranging from 2,000 BCE to the present,…
This randomized, placebo-controlled trial investigated the use of biofield healing (termed energy healing), compared to mock healing, for the alleviation of fatigue and inflammation after adjuvant or neoadjuvant therapy for breast cancer. Thirty-three women breast cancer survivo…
Are there alternatives to using violence between groups that have a history of collective mass violence between them? This is the underlying concern motivating the study: This concern is guided by my personal experience as a third generation Indian, growing up on stories of the …
This dissertation investigates twenty-eight instances of praise of God in Luke-Acts by combining a close, intrinsic reading with extrinsic, comparative study. Part one overviews praise of God in selected early Jewish literature and Greek texts and analyzes it as a narrative moti…
This dissertation examines why healing among the Yoruba people remained a successful popular institution in the colonial period between 1922 and 1955. The factors that allowed the Yoruba healing system to flourish were diverse. The Yoruba’s indigenous and colonial political stru…
Within the medical community, there has been increasing interest in understanding material growth in biomaterials. Material growth is the capability of a biomaterial to gain or lose mass. This research interest is driven by the host of health implications and medical problems re…
This inductive study explored the indigenous understandings and beliefs about suffering and healing of a sample of South Asian immigrant women. All seven of the participants had immigrated to the U.S. in the last ten years from South Asian countries, were of working class backgr…
This dissertation offers a new perspective in the study of biblical concepts of healing and restoration. It takes into account all kinds of healings/restorations, including physical, spiritual, and metaphorical. The first part of the research engages form critical scrutiny of th…
Using grounded theory methodology (Glaser's building theory from a data base), this research examines how peacebuilders heal violent trauma they have personally endured, with the aim of identifying common themes in their journeys from victim to survivor to provider. Using an app…
Internalized Jewish oppression results from absorbing anti-Semitic messages from a society founded on Christian norms, believing these messages as true, and thus internalizing misinformation about oneself and other Jews—leading to self-hatred. Such internalization also encompass…