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" Faith, health, and healing in African American life / "
edited by Stephanie Y. Mitchem and Emilie M. Townes
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BL
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626452
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| Title & Author
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Faith, health, and healing in African American life /\ edited by Stephanie Y. Mitchem and Emilie M. Townes
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| Publication Statement
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Westport, Conn. ;London :: Praeger,, 2008
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Religion, health and healing,
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xx, 207 p. :: map ;; 25 cm
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9780275993757
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: 0275993752
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-200) and index
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| Contents
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Ancestral songs -- Natural/supernatural : African American hoodoo narratives of sickness and healing / Yvonne P. Chireau -- Holistic health and healing : environmental racism and ecological justice / Dwight N. Hopkins -- Health and healing across the diaspora -- Bodies in time and the healing of spaces : religion, temporalities, and health / Charles H. Long -- Spiritual illness and healing : "if the Lord wills" / Arvilla Payne-Jackson -- The arts of ritual and practice -- The marking of the body, memory, and the meaning of suffering in Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata / Carolyn M. Jones -- Just awailing and aweeping : grief, lament, and hope as we face the end of life / Emilie M. Townes -- Honoring the body : ritual of breath and breathing / C. S'thembile West -- Analyzing social realities -- The destruction of Aunt Ester's house : faith, health, and healing in the African American community / Terri Baltimore and Mindy Thompson Fullilove -- The unspoken, the spoken, and affirmed : meanings of healing, same-gender-loving African Americans, and Black churches / Linda L. Barnes -- Finding and making wellness -- Seeking help for the body in the well-being of the soul / Rosemary D. Gooden -- Too gay for the church, but always at home in the club : health, spirituality, and social support among adult Black gay men in Oakland's Cable Reef / D. Mark Wilson -- Healing hearts and broken bodies : an African American women's spirituality of healing / Stephanie Y. Mitchem
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Spiritual healing-- United States
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Healing-- Religious aspects
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African Americans-- Religion
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BL65.M4F36 2008
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Mitchem, Stephanie Y.,1950-
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Townes, Emilie Maureen,1955-
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