Miracle Cures - Saints, Pilgrimage, and the Healing Powers of Belief

Zusatztext "Engaging! compassionate book." Informationen zum Autor Robert A. Scott ! a sociologist! was for 18 years the deputy director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Among other books! he is the author of The Gothic Enterprise: A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral (UC Press). Klappentext "Scott has written a magnificent book on the realities of religious healing. He brings sensibility! reason! impressive insight! and the best information to bear-qualities seldom manifested in the centuries of claim! cynicism! and controversy on the topic. His analysis is destined to raise the level of discourse on dramatic religious experiences."-Neil Smelser! author of The Odyssey Experience Zusammenfassung Iconic images of medieval pilgrims, such as Chaucer's making their laborious way to Canterbury, conjure a distant time when faith was the only refuge of the ill and infirm, and thousands traveled great distances to pray for healing. This title examines accounts of miracle cures at medieval, early modern, and contemporary shrines. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue Part One / Appealing to Saints for Miracles 1. Life in the Middle Ages 2. Saints 3. Apparitions 4. Pilgrimage and Shrines Part Two / Saints and Healing 5. Disease 6. The Role of Stress in Illness 7. Belief! Hope! and Healing 8. Framing! Confessing! Self-Efficacy! and Healing Coda Appendix: Accounts of Miracles at Medieval Shrines Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Robert A Scott, Robert A. Scott, Robert A. a. Scott, Scott Robert A.
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.10.2011
• EAN: 9780520271340
• ISBN: 978-0-520-27134-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Spirituality, comparative religion, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, RELIGION / Devotional, Spirituality & religious experience, Worship, rites & ceremonies, Spirituality and religious experience, Worship, rites, ceremonies and rituals