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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Stephanie Y Mitchem; Emilie Maureen Townes |
| ISBN: | 9780275993757 0275993752 |
| OCLC Number: | 226304676 |
| Description: | xx, 207 p. : map ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Ancestral songs -- Natural/supernatural : African American hoodoo narratives of sickness and healing / Yvonne P. Chireau -- Holistic health and healing : environmental racism and ecological justice / Dwight N. Hopkins -- Health and healing across the diaspora -- Bodies in time and the healing of spaces : religion, temporalities, and health / Charles H. Long -- Spiritual illness and healing : "if the Lord wills" / Arvilla Payne-Jackson -- The arts of ritual and practice -- The marking of the body, memory, and the meaning of suffering in Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata / Carolyn M. Jones -- Just awailing and aweeping : grief, lament, and hope as we face the end of life / Emilie M. Townes -- Honoring the body : ritual of breath and breathing / C. S'thembile West -- Analyzing social realities -- The destruction of Aunt Ester's house : faith, health, and healing in the African American community / Terri Baltimore and Mindy Thompson Fullilove -- The unspoken, the spoken, and affirmed : meanings of healing, same-gender-loving African Americans, and Black churches / Linda L. Barnes -- Finding and making wellness -- Seeking help for the body in the well-being of the soul / Rosemary D. Gooden -- Too gay for the church, but always at home in the club : health, spirituality, and social support among adult Black gay men in Oakland's Cable Reef / D. Mark Wilson -- Healing hearts and broken bodies : an African American women's spirituality of healing / Stephanie Y. Mitchem. |
| Series Title: | Religion, health and healing |
| Responsibility: | edited by Stephanie Y. Mitchem and Emilie M. Townes. |
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