Spiritual transformation and healing : anthropological, theological, neuroscientific, and clinical perspectives - Koss-Chioino, Joan.; Hefner, Philip J. (Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, 2006)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Conversion; Healing -- Religious aspects; Spiritual Therapies; Religion and Medicine; Spirituality