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Spiritual transformation and healing : anthropological, theological, neuroscientific, and clinical perspectives / [edited by] Joan D. Koss-Chioino and Philip Hefner. - Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, c2006. - xvii, 300 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Finding our way through new terrain -- Exploring spiritual transformation and healing : fundamental issues / Philip Hefner and Joan D. Koss-Chioino -- The meaning of spiritual transformation / Kenneth I. Pargament -- The spirit of spiritual healing in the United States / David J. Hufford and Mary Ann Bucklin -- Traditional and indigenous healing systems : anthropological perspectives -- Spiritual transformation and radical empathy in ritual healing and therapeutic relationships / Joan D. Koss-Chioino -- Radical empathy, gender, and shamanic healing : examples from Peru / Bonnie Glass-Coffin -- Sustainable faith? : reconfiguring shamanic healing in Siberia / Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer -- The making of a shaman : a comparative study of Inuit, African, and Nepalese shaman initiation / Edith L.B. Turner -- Spiritual transformation and healing from religious perspectives -- Spiritual transformation and healing : an encounter with the sacred / Philip Hefner -- Spiritual transformation and healing in light of an evolutionary theology / Karl E. Peters -- Personal transformation : perspectives from psychology and Christianity / Fraser Watts -- Spiritual growth, cognition, and complexity : faith as a dynamic process / Carol Rausch Albright -- Neuroscientific perspectives on spiritual transformation and healing -- The neurobiology of spiritual transformation / Andrew Newberg -- Narrative in holistic healing : empathy, sympathy, and simulation theory / Michael L. Spezio -- Healing of the self-in-context : memory, plasticity, and spiritual practice / David Allen Hogue -- Clinical perspectives on spiritual transformation and healing -- Spirituality, spiritual experiences, and spiritual transformations in the face of HIV / Gail Ironson, Heidemarie Kremer, and Dale S. Ironson -- Spiritual engagement and transformation in cancer patients : the experience of the patient, the role of the physician / Jean L. Kristeller and Leonard M. Hummel. Finding our way through new terrain -- Exploring spiritual transformation and healing : fundamental issues / Philip Hefner and Joan D. Koss-Chioino -- The meaning of spiritual transformation / Kenneth I. Pargament -- The spirit of spiritual healing in the United States / David Hufford and Mary Ann Bucklin -- Traditional and indigenous healing systems : anthropological perspectives -- Spiritual transformation and radical empathy in ritual healing and therapeutic relationships / Joan D. Koss-Chioino -- Radical empathy, gender, and shamanic healing : examples from Peru / Bonnie Glass-Coffin -- Sustainable faith? : reconfiguring shamanic healing in Siberia / Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer -- The making of a shaman : a comparative study of inupiat, African, and Nepalese shaman initiation / Edith Turner -- Spiritual transformation and healing from religious perspectives -- Spiritual transformation and healing--an encounter with the sacred / Philip Hefner -- Spiritual transformation and healing in light of an evolutionary theology / Karl E. Peters -- Personal transformation : perspectives from psychology and Christianity / Fraser Watts -- Spiritual growth, cognition, and complexity : faith as a dynamic process / Carol Rausch Albright -- Neuroscientific perspectives on spiritual transformation and healing -- The neurobiology of spiritual transformation / Andrew Newberg -- Narrative in holistic healing : empathy, sympathy, and simulation theory / Michael L. Spezio -- Healing of the self-in-context : memory, plasticity, and spiritual practice / David Hogue -- Clinical perspectives on spiritual transformation and healing -- Spirituality, spiritual experiences, and spiritual transformations in the face of HIV / Gail Ironson, Heidemarie Kremer, and Dale Ironson -- Spiritual engagement and transformation in cancer patients : the experience of the patient, the role of the physician / Jean L. Kristeller and Leonard Hummel.

ISBN: 0759108668 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780759108660 (cloth : alk. paper) 0759108676 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780759108677 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2005037632

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 101279650 DNLM

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Conversion.
Healing--Religious aspects.
Spiritual Therapies.
Religion and Medicine.
Spirituality.

LC Class. No.: BL639 / .S65 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 204/.2

National Library of Medicine Call No.: 2006 H-208 WB 880 / S759 2006