Spiritual Transformation and Healing Anthropological, Theological, Neuroscientific, and Clinical Perspectives,9780759108660

Spiritual Transformation and Healing Anthropological, Theological, Neuroscientific, and Clinical Perspectives

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780759108660
ISBN10: 0759108668
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-05-12
Publisher(s): AltaMira Press
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Summary

A new volume exploring spiritual transformation from various disciplinary perspectives.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Solomon H. Katz ix
Preface by Ralph W. Hood Jr. xiii
PART I: FINDING OUR WAY THROUGH NEW TERRAIN
1 Exploring Spiritual Transformation and Healing: Fundamental Issues
3(7)
Philip Hefner and Joan D. Koss-Chioino
2 The Meaning of Spiritual Transformation
10(15)
Kenneth I. Pargament
3 The Spirit of Spiritual Healing in the United States
25(20)
David I. Hufford and Mary Ann Bucklin
PART II: TRADITIONAL AND INDIGENOUS HEALING SYSTEMS: ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
4 Spiritual Transformation and Radical Empathy in Ritual Healing and Therapeutic Relationships
45(17)
Joan D. Koss-Chioino
5 Radical Empathy, Gender, and Shamanic Healing: Examples from Peru
62(16)
Bonnie Glass-Coffin
6 Sustainable Faith? Reconfiguring Shamanic Healing in Siberia
78(23)
Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer
7 The Making of a Shaman: A Comparative Study of Inuit, African, and Nepalese Shaman Initiation
101(18)
Edith L.B. Turner
PART III: SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION AND HEALING FROM RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES
8 Spiritual Transformation and Healing: An Encounter with the Sacred
119(15)
Philip Hefner
9 Spiritual Transformation and Healing in Light of an Evolutionary Theology
134(18)
Karl E. Peters
10 Personal Transformation: Perspectives from Psychology and Christianity
152(16)
Fraser Watts
11 Spiritual Growth, Cognition, and Complexity: Faith as a Dynamic Process
168(21)
Carol Rausch Albright
PART IV: NEUROSCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVES ON SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION AND HEALING
12 The Neurobiology of Spiritual Transformation
189(17)
Andrew Newberg
13 Narrative in Holistic Healing: Empathy, Sympathy, and Simulation Theory
206(17)
Michael L. Spezia
14 Healing of the Self-in-Context: Memory, Plasticity, and Spiritual Practice
223(18)
David Allen Hogue
PART V: CLINICAL PERSPECTIVES ON SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION AND HEALING
15 Spirituality, Spiritual Experiences, and Spiritual Transformations in the Face of HIV
241(22)
Gail Ironson, Heidemarie Kremer, and Dale S. Ironson
16 Spiritual Engagement and Transformation in Cancer Patients: The Experience of the Patient, the Role of the Physician
263(18)
Jean L. Kristeller and Leonard M. Hummel
Index 281(12)
About the Contributors 293

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