RELIGST 2WW3 Lecture Notes - Aromatherapy, Alternative Medicine, Therapeutic Touch
17 Mar 2014
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Prayer, pilgrimage, sacrifice ways to bring about healing. Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Illness pushes a person to the end of the familiar world. Sees the world from a new perspective. Frances burke: illness not disaster, but dangerous opportunity. Critical illness arises questions about the meaning of life. Healers frame illness in a meaningful context. Basic assumption in many cultres is that bodily health is related to spiritual health/moral concerns. Physical health related to the relationship with higher being. In some christian tradition, illness may be caused by a sin. In japanese cultures, ancestors may be responsible for causing an illness. Because sickness and healing are so closely related to religious or moral concerns in most cultures healers tend to involve religious specialists of one kind or another. Illness may be because stuff is misaligned in your life.
