RELIGST 2WW3 Lecture 9: Lecture 9 .docx
3 Dec 2014
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Healing: healing effect could go beyond the boundary of a single person who is sick. 10 day pilgrimage starting from west coast in mid may all the way to washington. It"s 10 days: their political agenda listed on the slide. , the journey seems to transform them: in many ways, the participants are given opportunity to refrain an individual suffering within community of fellow sufferers. Kleinman: kleinman talks about the suffering as social: kleinman raises many examples. Another way to look at is govt may decide what is poverty line, and they cut off this line is suffering. And above that, not suffering, but if youre below this line, you may be qualified for subsidy and in that way, suffering can be identified as social: moral-somatic interconnections: he talks about the somato-moral base of experience. She talks about kleinmans observation that body-self is kind of permeable.
