Dorothea Lüddeckens - Böcker

The relationships between religion, spirituality, health, biomedical institutions, complementary, and alternative healing systems are widely discussed today. While many of these debates revolve around the biomedical legitimacy of religious modes of healing, the market for them continues to grow. The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Medicine, and Health is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems, and debates in this exciting subject and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising over thirty-five chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into five parts:Healing practices with religious roots and framesReligious actors in and around the medical fieldOrganizing infrastructures of religion and medicine: pluralism and competitionBoundary-making between religion and medicineReligion and epidemicsWithin these sections, central issues, debates and problems are examined, including health and healing, religiosity, spirituality, biomedicine, medicalization, complementary medicine, medical therapy, efficacy, agency, and the nexus of body, mind, and spirit.The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Medicine, and Health is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies. The Handbook will also be very useful for those in related fields, such as sociology, anthropology, and medicine.

The relationships between religion, spirituality, health, biomedical institutions, complementary, and alternative healing systems are widely discussed today. While many of these debates revolve around the biomedical legitimacy of religious modes of healing, the market for them continues to grow. The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Medicine, and Health is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems, and debates in this exciting subject and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising over thirty-five chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into five parts:Healing practices with religious roots and framesReligious actors in and around the medical fieldOrganizing infrastructures of religion and medicine: pluralism and competitionBoundary-making between religion and medicineReligion and epidemicsWithin these sections, central issues, debates and problems are examined, including health and healing, religiosity, spirituality, biomedicine, medicalization, complementary medicine, medical therapy, efficacy, agency, and the nexus of body, mind, and spirit.The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Medicine, and Health is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies. The Handbook will also be very useful for those in related fields, such as sociology, anthropology, and medicine.

It explores a central paradox in the study of change: making sense of change requires long-term perspectives on societal transformations and on the different ways people experience social change, whereas the research carried out to study change is necessarily limited to a relatively short space of time.

Moderne Schlagworte wie "Globalisierung", "Kampf der Kulturen" oder "religiöser Pluralismus" sind eng verknüpft mit der Geschichte der interkulturellen und interreligiösen Begegnungen der letzten Jahrhunderte.Die Studie zeigt mit der Darstellung von Vorgeschichte und Verlauf der ersten interreligiösen Tagung auf internationaler Ebene, dem World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago 1893, wie wechselseitige Wahrnehmung von Religionen und Kulturen zu gegenseitigen Anregungen führten. In Chicago traten Anhänger verschiedester westlicher und asiatischer Traditionen auf, die selbstbewußt ihre Ansichten vorstellten und sich um das Gespräch bemühten. Die Analyse ihrer Reden macht für das 19. Jahrhundert typische Strukturen interreligiöser Wahrnehmung bzw. Begegnung sichtbar. Als "Antworten der Moderne" sind sie auch heute noch im Dialog der Religionen zu finden und ermöglichen auf dem historischen Hintergrund ein Verständnis der Prozesse der gegenseitigen Auseinandersetzung. Ein Anhang bietet Kurzinformationen zu den Teilnehmern des Parlamentes.