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Role of Cultural Beliefs and Use of Faith Healing in Management of Mental Disorders: A Descriptive Survey

open access: yesKerala Journal of Psychiatry, 2016
Background: From ancient times, cultures across the world accept faith healing practices as an intervention for mental illness. In India, cultural norms and beliefs have been shown to play an important role in the way people perceive mental illness and ...
Beena Rajan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Where Rabies Is Not a Disease. Bridging Healthworlds to Improve Mutual Understanding and Prevention of Rabies

open access: yesFrontiers in Veterinary Science, 2022
Deeply embedded in local social, cultural, and religious settings, traditional healing is part of dog bite and rabies management in many rabies endemic countries.
Deborah Nadal   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

The treatment of mental illness in faith-based and traditional healing centres in Ghana: perspectives of service users and healers

open access: yesGlobal Mental Health, 2020
Background The maltreatment of people with mental illness in Ghana's traditional and faith-based healing centres, including shackling, flogging, and forced fasting, has been documented by numerous sources.
Jessica E Lambert   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

How We Heal: Genealogical Narratives of Healing among San Lázaro Devotees

open access: yesGenealogy, 2021
Healing is the basis of belief in San Lázaro, a popular saint among Cubans, Cuban-Americans, and other Latinx peoples. Stories about healing, received through faith in San Lázaro, are typically passed on through family members, rendering them ...
Elaine Penagos
doaj   +1 more source

„Czemu bojaźliwi jesteście? Jakże wam brak wiary?” (Mk 4,40). W Roku Wiary pytamy o naszą wiarę

open access: yesWrocławski Przegląd Teologiczny, 2013
In its first part the article discusses three events recorded in the Gospel of St. Mark: calming the storm on the lake of Galilee (Mk 4:35-40), healing of an epileptic boy (Mk 9:14-29), and healing of Bartimaeus (Mk 10:46-52).
Ewa Jezierska
doaj   +1 more source

Perceived treatment efficacy o f the last experienced illness episode in a community sample in the Northern Province, South Africa

open access: yesCurationis, 2000
This study determined the perceived efficacy of various health care providers for the last illness episode patients had suffered. 104 African/Black participants (50 male and 54 female), chosen by quota sampling from the general public (urban population ...
K. Peltzer
doaj   +1 more source

Community healing and the role of pastoral care of the ill and suffering in Africa

open access: yesIn die Skriflig, 2006
The extended family (community) in Africa plays a crucial role in the process of healing. However, while the role of the community is invaluable, many scholars overlook its other side.
V. Magezi
doaj   +1 more source

Behold, she stands at the door: Reentry, black women and the black church [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This paper examines the African American church’s response to the special problems of African American women who reenter the community post-incarceration.
Stanley, Kathryn V.
core   +3 more sources

Faith in Technology: Televangelism and the Mediation of Immediate Experience

open access: yesPhenomenology & Practice, 2011
This paper seeks to illuminate the experiential structures implied in the viewing of televangelistic programming – with particular focus on programming of the charismatic faith-healing variety that culminates in the televangelist’s appeal to viewers to ...
Shane Denson
doaj   +1 more source

Faith Healing Revisited: A Charismatic Christian Intervention to the Therapy Culture in Finland

open access: yes, 2018
Healing has always been a central practice in Pentecostal and Charismatic churches throughout the world. The chapter focuses on a modernized practice of traditional Pentecostal faith healing implemented by the Healing Rooms, a globally expanded ...
T. Hovi
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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