The Devil and the Doctor: The (De)Medicalization of Exorcism in the Roman Catholic Church
Religions, 2022 Exorcists are once again in demand for their very specific set of skills in (religious) healing. The founding of the International Association of Exorcists (AIE), the development of the “Exorcism and Prayer of Liberation Course” at a Vatican university ...
Nicole Maria Bauer
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Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2005 Background Spirituality has become a subject of interest in health care as it is was recognized to have the potential to prevent, heal or cope with illness.
Ostermann Thomas +2 more
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Concerned about Purity and Power: The Zionist Churches in Southern Africa
Kulturní StudiaThe emergence of African Indigenous Churches (AICs) in sub-Saharan Africa during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries constitutes a paradigmatic case for interdisciplinary inquiry.
Christoffer H. Grundmann
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Western esotericism and the history of European science and medicine in the early modern period
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2008 The history of science and the history of medicine were, from their beginnings as subjects in the Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment periods, hostile to esoteric ideas and practices and generally excluded them from the scope of academic study. Esoteric
Jole Shackelford
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And Power Corrupts…: Theology and the Disciplinary Matrix of Bioethics [PDF]
, 2006 What role should religion play in a religiously pluralistic liberal society? Public bioethics unavoidably raises this question in a particularly insistent fashion.
Lysaught, M. Therese
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Young Muslim Women Living with Asthma in Denmark: A Link between Religion and Self-Efficacy
Pharmacy, 2018 Asthma is a chronic respiratory disease that can be controlled with appropriate medicinal treatment. Adherence to pharmacological treatment is therefore critical.
Louise C. Druedahl +4 more
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When can Muslims withdraw or withhold life support? A narrative review of Islamic juridical rulings
Global Bioethics, 2020 When it is ethically justifiable to stop medical treatment? For many Muslim patients, families, and clinicians this ethical question remains a challenging one as Islamic ethico-legal guidance on such matters remains scattered and difficult to interpret ...
Afshan Mohiuddin +3 more
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Pricing of medicinal products : considerations in a small market state [PDF]
, 2009 Thomas Szasz, the leading Hungarian psychiatrist, once stated: “Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.”peer ...
Farrugia, Claude, Savvas, Kiriasis
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New Age Healing: Origins, Definitions, and Implications for Religion and Medicine
Religions, 2022 This paper discusses the concept of New Age healing. Its emergence into popular culture in the 1980s can be traced to burgeoning interest in human potential and holistic health in the 1960s and 1970s.
Jeff Levin
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Medical Pluralism in the Coronavirus Epidemic: A Study of Controversy over Islamic Medicine [PDF]
مسائل اجتماعی ایران, 2021 Medical pluralism refers to the coexistence of different medical traditions in a society, and on this basis, alternative and complementary medicine have found their way into the health care systems of different countries.
simin kazemi
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