Psychic Healing and Women: An Example from a Spiritualist-Metaphysical Church
| dc.contributor.author | Hansen, K. Brooke | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-09-29T17:15:12Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-09-29T17:15:12Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1992 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Arizona Anthropologist 8:18-35. © 1992 Association of Student Anthropologists Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1062-1601 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/112056 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Ten million Americans are involved in some way with psychic healing practices, yet biomedicine often neglects or ignores these alternative health care systems. This study describes a contemporaly example of psychic healing among middle-class white women as observed in a southwestern Spiritualist-metaphysical chapel. This work is placed in both historical and contemporary contexts. Alternative healing choices, specifically psychic-spiritual healing, may affect the autonomy and self-empowerment of women. | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | University of Arizona, Department of Anthropology | en_US |
| dc.title | Psychic Healing and Women: An Example from a Spiritualist-Metaphysical Church | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |
| dc.identifier.journal | Arizona Anthropologist | en_US |
| refterms.dateFOA | 2018-08-21T20:00:05Z | |
| html.description.abstract | Ten million Americans are involved in some way with psychic healing practices, yet biomedicine often neglects or ignores these alternative health care systems. This study describes a contemporaly example of psychic healing among middle-class white women as observed in a southwestern Spiritualist-metaphysical chapel. This work is placed in both historical and contemporary contexts. Alternative healing choices, specifically psychic-spiritual healing, may affect the autonomy and self-empowerment of women. |
