RELIGST 2WW3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Clinical Psychology, Glossolalia, Faith Healing
14 Feb 2017
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When european"s came to the america"s they also brought over slaves = have own sense of medicine. Distrust of the new by poorer, less-educated/ 20th century social movements (with increased female ordination) Globalization; access to greater wealth of knowledge. Chronic illness and life expectancy; no solution to chronic illness except dying in. Reasons for interests in alternative" medical practices and models. Individual family members; i. e. uncle or aunt who knows old healing practices. Religious institutions, holy places, homes, streets, religious clinic. Structural violence: social structures and systems that, by there very nature, have perpetrated and perpetuated unequal access to resources and justice for different groups. Non-white, non-christian bodies construed as the other" and often considered less valuable. Illness as a manifestation of social forces religious healing. Religious healing may also enforce structural violence. Exotic nature of cures (appeals of alternative healing) Profiting off of aspects of marginalized groups (perpetuates power imbalance.
