Situating religion and medicine in Asia : methodological insights and innovations / edited by Michael Stanley-Baker.

Date:
2023
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Description

"This edited volume presents the latest research on the intersection of religion and medicine in Asia. It features chapters by internationally known scholars, who bring to bear a range of methodological and geographic expertise on this topic. The book's central question is to what extent 'religion' and 'medicine' have overlapped or interrelated in various Asian societies. Collectively, the contributions explore a number of related issues, such as: which societies separated out religious from medical concerns, at which times and in what ways? Where have medicine and religion converged, and how has such knowledge been defined by scholars and cultural actors? Are 'religion' and 'medicine' the best terms by which scholars can grapple with knowledge about the sacred and the self, destiny and disease?"--From publisher.

Publication/Creation

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2023.

Physical description

xxiii, 390 pages : black and white illustrations, black and white map ; 23 cm.

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Contents

Foreword / Dagmar Schäfer ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction / Michael Stanley-Baker ; Religion and health care in middle-period China / Nathan Sivin ; Religion and medicine in pre-modern Japan / Katja Triplett ; Female alchemy in late imperial and modern China / Elena Valussi ; Religion and medicine in Sanskrit literature: the Ramayana and the politics of an epic plant / Anthony Cerulli ; From 'medical men' to 'local health traditions': the secularisation of medicine in portrayals of health care in India / Helen Lambert ; Sound medicine: towards a nomadology of medical mantras in seventeenth to twentieth-century Bengal / Projit Bihari Mukharji ; Sowa Rigpa, Tibetan medicine, Tibetan healing / Geoffrey Samuel ; Homeopathy and Islam in Malaysia: Encounters of religion and complementary medical traditions in a modern Asian multi-ethnic society / Constantin Canavas ; Questioning the boundaries between medicine and religion in contemporary Myanmar / Céline Coderey

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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    History of Medicine
    CW.2
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  • 9781526160010
  • 1526160013