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Class Topics and Reading Assignments
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1/22
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Introductions, Class Covenant
and Review of materials on Blackboard and my course web site
- Fred Glennon, "Promoting
Freedom, Responsibility, Learning in the Classroom: The Learning Covenant A Decade Later,”
Teaching Theology and Religion, 2008, vol. 11 no. 1, pp 32–41.
(This essay, on Blackboard, will provide a framework for the pedagogical
style I use in this class.)
- Read Syllabus and
Learning Covenant materials (learning covenant guidelines, activity
options) on Blackboard (http://blackboard.lemoyne.edu) or my web
page (http://web.lemoyne.edu/~glennon/rel300.htm).
Be ready to discuss them when we start class.
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1/29
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Why Religion and Healing?
- Edith Turner, “Taking
Seriously the Nature of Religious Healing in America,”
in Religion and Healing in America,
387-404.
- Horace Miner,
"Body Ritual Among the Nacirema"
American Anthropologist (on Blackboard).
Religion
and Medicine as Cultural Systems
- Clifford Geertz, “Religion as a Cultural System,” in Interpretation
of Cultures (Basic Books 1977), 87-125 (on Blackboard). (Click
here for
questions to help guide your reading of Geertz.)
- David Kinsley,
"The Ideology of Modern Medical Culture," in Health,
Healing, and Religion, 168-184 (on Blackboard)
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2/5
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Defining Health, Illness, Culture and
Religion
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Kinsey, Health, Healing and Religion
(Prentice-Hall), chapter 8 (pp. 71-83 on electronic reserve).
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Sered and Barnes, “Introduction,” in Religion and Healing in America (3-26).
A Spectrum of Religion and Healing
- Martin Marty,
"Religion and Healing: The Four Expectations," in Religion and Healing in America Barnes
and Sered, 487-504
Supplemental Reading:
Caring for Patients from Different Cultures, 1-19, 50-63.
(Learning Covenants Due)
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2/12
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Mainline
Christian
- Bobbie McKay and
Lewis Musil, “The ‘Spiritual Healing
Project’: A Study of the Meaning
of Spiritual Healing in the United Church
of Christ,” in Religion and Healing in America, 49-57.
- Jennifer Hollis, “Healing
into Wholeness in the Episcopal Church,” in Religion and Healing in America, 89-101.
Sectarian Christian
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Claude Jacobs,
“Rituals of Healing in African American Spiritual Churches,” in Religion and Healing in America,
333-341.
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Stephie Mitchem, “’Jesus is My
Doctor”: Healing and Religion in
African American Women’s Lives,” in Religion
and Healing in America, 281-290.
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2/19
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Healing in Jewish and
Islamic Traditions
- Susan Sered,
"Healing as Resistance: Reflections upon New Forms of American
Jewish Healing," in Religion and Healing in America,
231-252. (Debbie
Friedman songs)
- Marcia Hermansen,
"Dimensions of Islamic Religious Healing in America," in Religion and Healing
in America,
407-422.
Asian Religions (Buddhist
and Hindu)
- Paul Numrich, "Complementary and Alternative
Medicine in America's
'Two Buddhisms,'" in Religion and
Healing in America,
343-358.
- Prakash
Desai, "Health, Faith Traditions, and South Asian Indians in North
America," in Religion and Healing in America, 423-438.
- Ayurvedic
Medicine
- "How Yoga Heals,"
from Yoga Basics
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2/26
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Traditional Chinese Medicine
and Acupuncture
Vodun and Santeria
- Karen McCarthy Brown,
"Making Wanga: Reality Constructions
and the Magical Manipulation of Power," in Religion and Healing
in America,
173-194
- Other readings TBA
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3/5
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New Age: Energy Healing and Wicca
- Robert Fuller,
"Subtle Energy and the American Metaphysical Tradition," in Religion
and Healing in America,
375-386.
- Scientific American
video, "Therapeutic
Touch"
- NIH, Reiki
Video
- Grove Harris,
"Healing in Feminist Wicca," in Religion and Healing in America,
253-263.
- J. Gordon Melton,
"Wicca,"
at Religious Tolerance.Org
- NIH, “Energy
Medicine: An Overview”
Metaphysical
Traditions
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Christian
Science Healing
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Mary Baker Eddy, “Science,
Theology, and Medicine,” in Science and Health (www. Spirituality.com)
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Christian
Science Healing Resources
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“Helping Others Recover from
Illness and Injuries,” Scientology Handbook (http://www.scientologyhandbook.org/SH6.HTM)
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3/12
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Spring Break (No Classes)
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3/19
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Shamanism
- David Kinsley,
“Shamanic Healing,” (on electronic reserve and Blackboard)
- Phua
Xiong, et. al, "Hmong Shamanism: Animist Spiritual Healing
in America's
Urban Heartland," in Religion and Healing in America,
439-454.
- Shamanic
Healing
Saints and Faith Healers
- Robert Orsi, "The Cult of the Saints and the Reimagination of the Space and Time of Sickness in
Twentieth-Century American Catholicism," in Religion and Healing
in America,
29-48
- Gaston Espinosa,
"God Made a Miracle in My Life: Latino Pentecostal Healing in the
Borderlands," in Religion and Healing in America,
123-138.
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3/26
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Exorcists and
Exorcism
Pain, Suffering, Theodicy
- Jerome Groopman, "Matt" (on Blackboard)
- Arthur Frank,
"The Quest Narrative" (on Blackboard)
- Margaret E. Mohrmann, "Someone is Always Playing Job,"
62-79 (on Blackboard)
Supplemental Reading:
Galanti, Caring for Patients from Different Cultures,
41-49.
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4/2
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Film Presentation and Book
Discussion
- C.S. Lewis, A
Grief Observed
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4/9
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Easter Break (No class)
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4/16
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Religious Views of Sexuality
(Homosexuality)
- Tanya Erzen, "Sexual Healing: Self-Help and
Therapeutic Christianity in the Ex-Gay Movement," in Religion
and Healing in America,
265-280.
Medical Rejections of Religious Practice
(Ritual Observance Papers Due)
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4/23
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Religious Rejections
of Medical Practice
- "Healing by
Prayer not Medicine," excerpts from ReligiousTolerance.org (on
Blackboard)
The Faith Factor in Healing
- Jeff Levin, God,
Faith, and Health: Exploring the Spirituality-Healing Connection, chapter
1(on Blackboard).
(Final revisions for learning covenants)
(Ritual Observance Papers Due)
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4/30
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Ethical Issues
Surrounding Health Care Availability (Last
Day of Class)
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5/7
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Final Exam (6:00-8:30pm)
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