SORCERY AND HEALING Early Christian missionaries in Africa used this term “sorcerer or sorceress” to refer to individuals who were believed to intentionally use "incantations‚ ritual‚ and various substances" to mount psychic attacks against other people. They were believed to direct destructive black magic in the direction of their victims. These individuals are called umthakathi among the Zulu and moloi among the Sotho. "Evil sorcerer" or "evil sorceress” was most often the preferred term used
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The Healing Hospital – A Daring Paradigm Katherine Perona 02 June 2013 310HL-V – Spritiuality in Health Care Prof. Verree Laughlin The Healing Hospital – A Daring Paradigm 2 The medical community has reached a very important nexus in terms of providing care to the injured and infirm that find themselves in a hospital environment. The so-called Healing Hospital represents a radical shift
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Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Betty Cronier Grand Canyon University Spirituality in Health Care HLT 310V Debbie Whitler‚ BS‚ MA May 15‚ 2011 Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm As stated by Erie Chapman “healing hospitals” are centers of love characterized by a myriad of wonderful encounters‚ many small and a few large (2011). This paradigm of such a caring concept focuses on removing stressors for patients‚ families and caregivers from the clinical environment. These stressors inhibit
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Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Introduction At a conference in 2012‚ Health Affairs Editor-in Chief Susan Dentzer affirmed‚ “It is well established now that one can in fact improve the quality of health care and reduce the costs at the same time” (Rickert‚ 2012). This is the principal concept of “patient centered care”. Health-care providers practicing patient centered care enhance not only patients’ medical outcomes‚ but increase patient satisfaction rates and improve the quality of the
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Date The existence of healing hospitals is not a new ideology. “Historically‚ hospitals were often founded and funded by religious orders” (Encyclopedia Britannica‚ 2014). Hospitals of yesteryear were built on the premise of healing and fulfilled several of the requirements of institutions established for healing. As early as 4000 B. C. many religions identified and associated some of their deities with healing powers. However‚ the modern concept of hospitals dates
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Practical Healing By Bro. Noel Sales Barcelona The Truth & Wisdom Society‚ Inc. Is any sicke among you? let him call for the Elders of the Church‚ and let them pray ouer him‚ anointing him with oyle in the Name of the Lord… ~ James 5:14 1. What is healing? Healing is the restoration of the mind‚ body and soul into its “original” or healthy state. It is the personal experience of the transcendence of suffering.[1] 2. What is a dis-ease? The body tends to suffer due to imbalance
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Running head: FINAL EXAM Anthropology of Healing Final Exam Each society has their own medical systems and practices for diagnosing and treating illness and disease. There is a direct relationship between healing beliefs and practices and cultures. Ethno medical inquiry is defined as “the study of how members of different cultures think about disease and organize themselves toward medical treatment and the social organization of treatment itself” (Fabrega 1975:969). Each ethno medical
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from the Americas to Africa to Asia‚ the value of sitting quietly‚ using various techniques to cultivate stillness or focused attention of the mind‚ has been well recognized. The goals of religious meditation extend far beyond its potential physical health benefits and also extend beyond the scope of this book. Higher human function of body‚ mind‚ and spirit is explored in sacred literature throughout the world. An excellent summary of ancient and contemporary information on the subject can be found
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An Exploration of Spiritual Healing Throughout time‚ mankind has constantly been seeking ways to maintain their health and to cure those that had not been so fortunate in that task. Just about everything has been experimented with as a cure for some type of illness; whether physical or mental. There is also a third type of illness that can and is addressed‚ which is healing on the spiritual plan. According to research‚ most of the spiritual healers are concentrated in primitive societies and
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Healing Hospital: A Daring Paradigm Introduction Healing hospital paradigm is a model in health care provision that focuses on recovery and return to wellness of the whole body. This is contrary to the cure model used in traditional hospital which focuses on eradicating the disease. Healing health care focus of the need of the entire being rather than focusing on curing the physical ailment. This concept advances the idea that apart from addressing the physical needs‚ the healing process should
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