"Instant Miracles are Rare, but It Happened to Me"
نام عام مواد
[Article]
نام نخستين پديدآور
Katharina Wilkens
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
محل نشرو پخش و غیره
Leiden
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Brill
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
The Marian Faith Healing Ministry, under the leadership of the excommunicated Catholic priest Felicien Nkwera, is dedicated to the fight against demons, illness, and corruption. It is a small, but fairly well-known group in Tanzania and enjoys some notoriety due to its propagation of exorcism. At the same time, both the leader and its members fully accept the biomedical paradigm of healing. In this article, I analyze narrative structures reflecting moments of differentiation and de-differentiation between the systems of religious healing and of (bio-)medicine. I draw both on narratives of healing published by Nkwera in his books as well as on narrative interviews conducted with his followers. Religious and biomedical frameworks of explanation were emplotted by some respondents as narratives of miracle healing and conversion, in which biomedicine's denial of spiritual agency serves as the necessary foil to the efficacy of religious healing. My findings contribute to the study of contemporary forms of alternative medicine by making a case for employing methods of narrative analysis in this field.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2018
توصيف ظاهري
207-231
عنوان
Numen
شماره جلد
65/2-3
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1568-5276
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اصطلاح موضوعی
biomedicine
اصطلاح موضوعی
Catholicism
اصطلاح موضوعی
Comparative Religion & Religious Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
faith-healing
اصطلاح موضوعی
General
اصطلاح موضوعی
healing narratives
اصطلاح موضوعی
History of Religion
اصطلاح موضوعی
Marian Faith Healing Ministry
اصطلاح موضوعی
Religion & Society
اصطلاح موضوعی
Religion in Antiquity
اصطلاح موضوعی
Religious Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
Social Sciences
اصطلاح موضوعی
Tanzania
نام شخص به منزله سر شناسه - (مسئولیت معنوی درجه اول )