- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Religion and Healing in America
- Introduction
-
1 The Cult of the Saints and the Reimagination of the Space and Time of Sickness in Twentieth-Century American Catholicism -
2 The “Spiritual Healing Project”: A Study of the Meaning of Spiritual Healing in the United Church of Christ -
3 Ritual and Magic: Two Diverse Approaches to Inner Healing in the Cambodian American Community -
4 Procreating Women and Religion: The Politics of Spirituality, Healing, and Childbirth in America -
5 Healing into Wholeness in the Episcopal Church -
6 Miraculous Migrants to the City of Angels: Perceptions of El Santo Niño de Atocha and San Simón as Sources of Health and Healing -
7 “God Made a Miracle in My Life”: Latino Pentecostal Healing in the Borderlands -
8 The Gathering of Traditions: The Reciprocal Alliance of History, Ecology, Health, and Community among the Contemporary Chumash -
9 Religious Healing among War-Traumatized African Immigrants -
10: Making Wanga: Reality Constructions and the Magical Manipulation of Power -
11 “Our Work Is Change for the Sake of Justice”: Hope Community, Minneapolis, Minnesota -
12 Communing with the Dead: Spiritual and Cultural Healing in Chicano/a Communities -
13: Spirituality and Aging in the San Francisco Japanese Community -
14 Healing as Resistance: Reflections upon New Forms of American Jewish Healing -
15 : Healing in Feminist Wicca -
16 Sexual Healing: Self-Help and Therapeutic Christianity in the Ex-Gay Movement -
17 “Jesus Is My Doctor”: Healing and Religion in African American Women's Lives -
18: Gender and Healing in Navajo Society -
19 Multiple Meanings of Chinese Healing in the United States -
20 Rituals of Healing in African American Spiritual Churches -
21 Complementary and Alternative Medicine in America's “Two Buddhisms,” -
22 La Mesa del Santo Niño de Atocha and the Conchero Dance Tradition of Mexico-Tenochtilaάn: Religious Healing in Urban Mexico and the United States -
23 Subtle Energies and the American Metaphysical Tradition -
24 Taking Seriously the Nature of Religious Healing in America -
25 Dimensions of Islamic Religious Healing in America -
26 Health, Faith Traditions, and South Asian Indians in North America -
27 Among Shamanism: Animist Spiritual Healing in America's Urban Heartland -
28 Spirituality and the Healing of Addictions: A Shamanic Drumming Approach -
29 The Healing Genes -
30 Religion and Healing: The Four Expectations -
31: Afterword: A Physician's Reflections - Index
Making Wanga: Reality Constructions and the Magical Manipulation of Power
Making Wanga: Reality Constructions and the Magical Manipulation of Power
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- Religion and Healing in America
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Karen McCarthy Brown
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- Oxford University Press
The demonstration for Abner Louima in 1997 in New York City marked a new stage in the growing involvement of Haitians in local politics. Many protest signs blamed Mayor Rudolph Giuliani for what happened to Louima, a victim of police brutality. Issues of secrecy, especially the malevolent kind, are overdetermined in relation to anything that has to do with Haiti, a country and culture that, in the eyes of white America, is virtually synonymous with black magic. The dense, racially charged images that public personalities and journalists called up so effortlessly in commentary on the cases of Louima and Amadou Diallo, who was shot and killed by New York City police, are representations constructed “in the shadow of the fetish”. Like the charms Haitian Vodou priestess and healer Mama Lola made to help Louima, they are wanga.
Keywords: Abner Louima, Amadou Diallo, New York City, Haitians, police brutality, black magic, Vodou, wanga, fetish
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Religion and Healing in America
- Introduction
-
1 The Cult of the Saints and the Reimagination of the Space and Time of Sickness in Twentieth-Century American Catholicism -
2 The “Spiritual Healing Project”: A Study of the Meaning of Spiritual Healing in the United Church of Christ -
3 Ritual and Magic: Two Diverse Approaches to Inner Healing in the Cambodian American Community -
4 Procreating Women and Religion: The Politics of Spirituality, Healing, and Childbirth in America -
5 Healing into Wholeness in the Episcopal Church -
6 Miraculous Migrants to the City of Angels: Perceptions of El Santo Niño de Atocha and San Simón as Sources of Health and Healing -
7 “God Made a Miracle in My Life”: Latino Pentecostal Healing in the Borderlands -
8 The Gathering of Traditions: The Reciprocal Alliance of History, Ecology, Health, and Community among the Contemporary Chumash -
9 Religious Healing among War-Traumatized African Immigrants -
10: Making Wanga: Reality Constructions and the Magical Manipulation of Power -
11 “Our Work Is Change for the Sake of Justice”: Hope Community, Minneapolis, Minnesota -
12 Communing with the Dead: Spiritual and Cultural Healing in Chicano/a Communities -
13: Spirituality and Aging in the San Francisco Japanese Community -
14 Healing as Resistance: Reflections upon New Forms of American Jewish Healing -
15 : Healing in Feminist Wicca -
16 Sexual Healing: Self-Help and Therapeutic Christianity in the Ex-Gay Movement -
17 “Jesus Is My Doctor”: Healing and Religion in African American Women's Lives -
18: Gender and Healing in Navajo Society -
19 Multiple Meanings of Chinese Healing in the United States -
20 Rituals of Healing in African American Spiritual Churches -
21 Complementary and Alternative Medicine in America's “Two Buddhisms,” -
22 La Mesa del Santo Niño de Atocha and the Conchero Dance Tradition of Mexico-Tenochtilaάn: Religious Healing in Urban Mexico and the United States -
23 Subtle Energies and the American Metaphysical Tradition -
24 Taking Seriously the Nature of Religious Healing in America -
25 Dimensions of Islamic Religious Healing in America -
26 Health, Faith Traditions, and South Asian Indians in North America -
27 Among Shamanism: Animist Spiritual Healing in America's Urban Heartland -
28 Spirituality and the Healing of Addictions: A Shamanic Drumming Approach -
29 The Healing Genes -
30 Religion and Healing: The Four Expectations -
31: Afterword: A Physician's Reflections - Index
