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Soul and Body Diseases, Remedies and Healing in Middle Eastern Religious Cultures and Traditions

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Aiming to develop a less studied literary genre, this book provides a well-rounded picture of spiritual and physical diseases and their remedies as they were ingrained in the imagination and practices of Middle Eastern Abrahamic cultures, with a special emphasis of Christian communities (Greeks/Byzantines, Syrians, Armenians, Georgians, Ethiopians). The volume traces traditions dealing with the onset of a disease in the body and soul, the search for remedy, the maintenance of healing, and the engagement of these processes with faith--either through their affirmation in the public sphere or remaining within the personal framework, as in monastic traditions. A recurring presence in religious literature and the history of the intellectual world, the confrontation between disease and healing may well still be current for our modern understanding of the paths to seeking and maintaining the health of one's body and soul, without excluding the factor of faith as a core principle.


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Catalin-Stefan Popa, Ph.D. (2016) Georg August University of Göttingen, Habilitation (2021), Karl Franzens University of Graz, is Research Professor at the Romanian Academy. He has published monographs, edited volumes and articles, including The Making of Syriac Jerusalem: Representations of the Holy City in Syriac Literature of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Routledge, 2023). He is editor-in-chief and founder of The Syriac Annals of Romanian Academy (SARA).


Product details

Assisted by Catalin-Stefan Popa (Editor)
Publisher Brill
 
Content Book
Product form Hardback
Publication date 01.08.2023
Subject Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works
Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General
 
EAN 9789004549104
ISBN 978-90-04-54910-4
Pages 398
Dimensions (packing) 15.5 x 23.4 x 2.4 cm
Weight (packing) 748 g
 
Series Studies on the Children of Abr > 10
Subjects Soziallehre und Sozialethik, Pastoral und Seelsorge, RELIGION / History, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, MEDICAL / History, RELIGION / Philosophy, Religion - Commentaries / Reference
 

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