Book 2002

Body/Meaning/Healing (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion)

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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: English
Published: 2002

Cultural studies
Social & cultural anthropology
Social Science
Religion - World Religions
Sociology
Anthropology - Cultural
Comparative Religion
Ethnic Studies - General

Healing at its most human is not an escape into irreality and mystification, but an intensification of the encounter between suffering and hope at the moment in which it finds a voice, where the anguished clash of bare life and raw existence emerges from muteness into articulation.