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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
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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
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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
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How We Heal: Genealogical Narratives of Healing among San Lázaro Devotees
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
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„Czemu bojaźliwi jesteście? Jakże wam brak wiary?” (Mk 4,40). W Roku Wiary pytamy o naszą wiarę
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
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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
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Community healing and the role of pastoral care of the ill and suffering in Africa
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
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Behold, she stands at the door: Reentry, black women and the black church [PDF]
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.
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Faith in Technology: Televangelism and the Mediation of Immediate Experience
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
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Faith Healing Revisited: A Charismatic Christian Intervention to the Therapy Culture in Finland
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
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