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Sign or symptom? : exceptional corporeal phenomena in religion and medicine in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / edited by Tine Van Osselaer, Henk de Smaele, Kaat Wils.

Contributor(s): Osselaer, Tine van [editor.] | Smaele, Henk de [editor.] | Wils, Kaat [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: KADOC studies on religion, culture, and society: 19.Publisher: Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 204 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789462701076; 9462701075Subject(s): Parapsychology -- Religious aspects | Medicine -- Religious aspects | Religion and science | Parapsychology and medicine | Parapsychology and scienceBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and (pages [187]-198) index.
Contents:
Tine van Osselaer -- The devil in the madhouse: on the treatment of religious pathologies in early psychiatry, Tyrol, 1830-1850 / Maria Heidegger -- Gustave Boissarie, Jean-Martin Charcot and Sigmund Freud: three doctors' responses to some unusual bodily phenomena : convergences and divergences (in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries) / Nicole Edelman -- Prophecies of pilgrimage: the rise and fall of Marie Bergadieu, the ecstatic of Fontet / Sofie Lachapelle -- Medical and mystical opinion in British catholicism: the contentious case of Teresa Higginson / Mary Heimann -- Disenchanted America: accounting for the lack of extraordinary mystical phenomena in Catholic America / Paula Kane -- The mad saint as healer:"the Islamic majnun in al-Kattani's Salwat al-anfas and in French colonial medicine and sociology / Ellen J. Amster -- Experiencing religion and medicine: Marian apparition and victim souls in Portugal, 1910-1950 / Tiago Pires Marques -- A question of competence and authority: lay views on the medical examinations of the Marian apparition series in 1930s Belgium / Tine van Osselaer.

Includes bibliographical references and (pages [187]-198) index.

Introduction / Tine van Osselaer -- The devil in the madhouse: on the treatment of religious pathologies in early psychiatry, Tyrol, 1830-1850 / Maria Heidegger -- Gustave Boissarie, Jean-Martin Charcot and Sigmund Freud: three doctors' responses to some unusual bodily phenomena : convergences and divergences (in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries) / Nicole Edelman -- Prophecies of pilgrimage: the rise and fall of Marie Bergadieu, the ecstatic of Fontet / Sofie Lachapelle -- Medical and mystical opinion in British catholicism: the contentious case of Teresa Higginson / Mary Heimann -- Disenchanted America: accounting for the lack of extraordinary mystical phenomena in Catholic America / Paula Kane -- The mad saint as healer:"the Islamic majnun in al-Kattani's Salwat al-anfas and in French colonial medicine and sociology / Ellen J. Amster -- Experiencing religion and medicine: Marian apparition and victim souls in Portugal, 1910-1950 / Tiago Pires Marques -- A question of competence and authority: lay views on the medical examinations of the Marian apparition series in 1930s Belgium / Tine van Osselaer.

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