- 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 <i>Wanga</i>: 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
Multiple Meanings of Chinese Healing in the United States
Multiple Meanings of Chinese Healing in the United States
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- (p.307) 19 Multiple Meanings of Chinese Healing in the United States
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- Religion and Healing in America
- Author(s):
Linda L. Barnes
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Following a front-page story in the New York Times in 1972 by James Reston about his experiences with acupuncture in a Chinese hospital, virtually every article on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in United States media has featured this modality as CAM's poster child, with the patient presented as a wide-eyed face bristling with needles. To a lesser degree, Chinese herbs have made the news as well. This chapter examines constructions of race in the United States; the ways that Chinese healing practices interface with issues of religious identity and expression for Chinese American practitioners; tensions between conversion and appropriation, particularly as both pertain to European American practitioners; and a different aspect of acculturation, the phenomenon of medicalization. These issues are reviewed in relation to broader issues of cross-cultural transmission in the context of globalization.
Keywords: United States, Chinese healing practices, race, complementary medicine, alternative medicine, acupuncture, herbs, medicalization, religious identity, healing, conversion
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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 <i>Wanga</i>: 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
