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Spiritual healing : scientific and religious perspectives / edited by Fraser Watts.

Contributor(s): Watts, Fraser N
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011Description: xiv, 207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780521197939 (hardback); 0521197937 (hardback)Subject(s): Spiritual healing | Healing -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | Medicine -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | Healing -- Religious aspects | Medicine -- Religious aspects | Religion and scienceDDC classification: 203/.1 LOC classification: BT732.5 | .S667 2011Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-203) and index.
Contents:
Conceptual issues in spiritual healing / Fraser Watts -- The historical Jesus and healing: Jesus' miracles in psychosocial context / Justin Meggitt -- The theology of spiritual healing / Philip Clayton -- Healing the spirit: mystical Judaism, religious texts and medicine / Simon Dein -- Conceptualizations of spiritual healing: Christian and secular / Charles Bourne and Fraser Watts -- The psychodynamics of spiritual healing and the power of mother kissing it better / Bruce Kinsey -- Spiritual healing in the context of the human need for safeness, connectedness and warmth: a biopsychosocial approach / Paul Gilbert and Hannah Gilbert -- Modelling the biomedical role of spirituality through breast cancer research / Michael J. Boivin and Burton Webb -- Spirituality and health: assessing the evidence / Marilyn Schlitz -- Relating spiritual healing and science: some critical reflections / David Leech -- Concluding integration / Fraser Watts.

Originated from a symposium of the John Templeton Foundation's Humble Approach Initiative held Jan. 2004 at Queen's College, Cambridge. --P. xiii.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-203) and index.

Conceptual issues in spiritual healing / Fraser Watts -- The historical Jesus and healing: Jesus' miracles in psychosocial context / Justin Meggitt -- The theology of spiritual healing / Philip Clayton -- Healing the spirit: mystical Judaism, religious texts and medicine / Simon Dein -- Conceptualizations of spiritual healing: Christian and secular / Charles Bourne and Fraser Watts -- The psychodynamics of spiritual healing and the power of mother kissing it better / Bruce Kinsey -- Spiritual healing in the context of the human need for safeness, connectedness and warmth: a biopsychosocial approach / Paul Gilbert and Hannah Gilbert -- Modelling the biomedical role of spirituality through breast cancer research / Michael J. Boivin and Burton Webb -- Spirituality and health: assessing the evidence / Marilyn Schlitz -- Relating spiritual healing and science: some critical reflections / David Leech -- Concluding integration / Fraser Watts.

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