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Linda L. Barnes directs the Boston Healing Landscape Project, an institute for the study of religions, medicines, and healing, at Boston University School of Medicine, where she is an Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Pediatrics. She founded and co-chairs the Religions, Medicines, and Healing program unit of the American Academy of Religion. Inés M. Talamantez is Associate Professor of Native American Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and managing editor of New Scholar: An Americanist Review. She has done extensive fieldwork in the Southwest, and has directed the Society for the Study of Native American Religious Traditions.

This volume is designed to help instructors incorporate discussion of healing into their courses and to encourage the development of courses focused on religion and healing. It brings together essays by leading experts in a range of disciplines and addresses the role of healing in many different religious traditions. The primary target audience comprises faculty in religious studies, divinity schools, anthropology, sociology, and ethnic studies. However, the volume also addresses the needs of educators training pre-med students and will be an invaluable resource for those involved in educating physicians, health care professionals, and chaplains, particularly in relation to what is referred to as "cultural competence" - the ability to work with multicultural and religiously diverse patient populations.

Contributors     xiii
Introduction   Linda L. Barnes     3
Theoretical Frames
Religion, Healing, and the Body   Suzanne J. Crawford     29
Teaching Religion and Healing at a Southern University   Kaja Finkler     47
Hindu, Tibetan, and Chinese Traditions
Shanti: Peace for the Mind, Body, and Soul   Vasudha Narayanan     61
Keeping It All in Balance: Teaching Asian Religions through Illness and Healing   Ivette Vargas-O'Bryan     83
Teaching the History of Chinese Healing Traditions   Linda L. Barnes     95
Native and Chicano/a American Traditions
Teaching Native American Religious Traditions and Healing   Ines M. Talamantez     113
Ometeotl Moyocoyatzin: Nahuatl Spiritual Foundations for Holistic Healing   Ines Hernandez-Avila     127
Chicanos/as, Religion, and Healing: Traditions and Transformations   Lara Medina     139
Through the Study of Shamanisms
Shamanism as a Point of Departure: Two Courses on Christianity and Healing   Amanda Porterfield     159
Teaching about Shamanism and Religious Healing: A Cross-Cultural, Biosocial-Spiritual Approach   Michael Winkelman   Christopher Carr     171
Experiential Pedagogies
The Anthropology of Experience: The Way to TeachReligion and Healing   Edith Turner     193
Medicine, Healing, and Spirituality: A Cross-Cultural Exploration   Paula K. R. Arai     207
Religious Healing as Pedagogical Performance   Stephanie Y. Mitchem     219
Magic, Witchcraft, and Healing   Arvilla Payne-Jackson     229
Courses for Caregivers
Spirituality of Healing   Kwok Pui-lan     247
The Worldviews Seminar: An Intensive Survey of American Urban Religious Diversity   Lucinda A. Mosher   Claude Jacobs     261
Teaching Religion and Healing; Spirituality and Aging in the San Francisco Japanese Community   Ronald Y. Nakasone     277
Religion and Healing for Physician's Assistants   Fred Glennon     293
A Medical School Curriculum on Religion and Healing   Linda L. Barnes     307
Additional Syllabi
Religion, Ritual, and Healing in North America   Pamela E. Klassen     329
World Religions and Healing   Linda L. Barnes     341
Resource Bibliographies     353
Index     379