Miracle cures: saints, pilgrimage, and the healing powers of belief
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Main Author: Scott, Robert A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, Calif. University of California Press ©2010
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Prologue -- Appealing to saints for miracles -- Life in the Middle Ages -- Saints -- Apparitions -- Pilgrimage and shrines -- Saints and healing -- Disease -- The role stress in illness -- Belief, hope, and healing -- Framing, confessing, and healing -- Appendix A: Accounts of miracles at medieval shrines
In this work, Scott explores the realities of religious healing. He inquires into the power of relics, apparitions, and the transformative nature of sacred journeying and shines new light on the roles belief, hope, and emotion can play in healing
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxix, 235 pages)
ISBN:0520262751
0520946200
9780520262751
9780520946200

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