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Book Synopsis
This study of the contemporary American faith healing movement, the Catholic Charismatic Revival, blends ethnographic details with case histories to provide a cultural analysis of the healing experience.

Table of Contents
PREFACE
Chapter 1
Introduction
Chapter 2
Ritual Healing: Affliction and Transformation
Chapter 3
Therapeutic Process and Experience
Chapter 4
Embodied Imagery and Divine Revelation
Chapter 5
Imaginal Performance and Healing of Memories
Chapter 6
Image, Memory, and Efficacy
Chapter 7
Demons and Deliverance
Chapter 8
Encounters with Evil and the Healing
Chapter 10
Envoi: The Sacred Self
NOTES
REFERENCES
INDEX

The Sacred Self

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    Publisher: University of California Press
    Publication Date: 07/05/1997
    ISBN13: 9780520208841, 978-0520208841
    ISBN10: 0520208846
    Also in:
    Decolonisation Theology

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    This study of the contemporary American faith healing movement, the Catholic Charismatic Revival, blends ethnographic details with case histories to provide a cultural analysis of the healing experience.

    Table of Contents
    PREFACE
    Chapter 1
    Introduction
    Chapter 2
    Ritual Healing: Affliction and Transformation
    Chapter 3
    Therapeutic Process and Experience
    Chapter 4
    Embodied Imagery and Divine Revelation
    Chapter 5
    Imaginal Performance and Healing of Memories
    Chapter 6
    Image, Memory, and Efficacy
    Chapter 7
    Demons and Deliverance
    Chapter 8
    Encounters with Evil and the Healing
    Chapter 10
    Envoi: The Sacred Self
    NOTES
    REFERENCES
    INDEX

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